Cinema Regained
Programma IFFR 2022
A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.
Overview of films
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Modern Korea: The Age of Beasts + Korean Ghost Stories – ieodo
Combined programme, at the suggestion of producer-director Jeong Jaeeun
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What Beat You Nothing
An essay on Soviet and Russian history in the guise of a portrait of actress Alla Demidova, icon of the Russian-language stage and screen.
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Urf
A loving documentary about the daily lives of several Indian star lookalikes, and what it means to constantly be mistaken.
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Modern Korea: The Age of Beasts
An investigation into the way Korean television presented discrimination and violence against women in teleplays and news items.
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The Lady from Constantinople
Scenes from the life of a lonely elderly lady in utterly bizarre situations. A masterpiece hopscotching between surrealism and cinema vérit&
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Korean Ghost Stories – ieodo
Version of a popular folk tale about a mysterious island realm ruled by women. A rare treasure of television!
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Every Week Seven Days
Students’ daily life turns into an anxiety-riddled existentialist vision of atomic overkill. A masterpiece of modernist poetics!