Cinema Regained

A gaudy vision of our modern age’s gruesome grimness, done as a funky picture-collage animation.

A song, dance, action, laughter and romance-packed Hindi spectacle as a paean to religious tolerance.

Little-seen teleplay on memory and displacement – perhaps the model for Ivory’s A Cooler Climate!

When a village is in danger, the inhabitants set out to find the Bear of Happiness.

A metaphysical Indian movie mystery animated with elements found in a museum's film paraphernalia collection.

Acerbic commentary on the Philippines' rural proprietor class with some grim 'n glorious violence.

Young runaways find church sanctuary and discover The line that’s drawn between / Good and bad.

“A film for those who know nothing about cinema... what it is, and how it is made.”

An essay on history, memory and gay desire developed from the materials of an unfinished documentary.

A key early work in Singapore's avant-garde cinema, and the oldest existing film by Rajendra Gour.

An unfinished film by the late Ukrainian polymath Florian Yuriev, curatorially prepared by Oleksiy Radynski.

A portrait of key Japanese avant-garde figure Okuyama Jun'ichi, obsessed by analogue film – a vanishing art.

An adaptation of The Rialto Report's podcast on Kathy Harcourt's fate, using images from Paul Vatelli's Lips.

A deep dive into the unique YouTube universe of Kati Kelli. A satire of modern life!

Three stories-in-songs for children about the heavens above. A milestone in (Soviet) Latvian animation!

A noir-tinged look at Ouagadougou through the story of a true believer whose sons get sucked into a life of crime.

The story of a gold rush in the Swiss Alps shot in a modern, New Objectivity influenced style.

An elegant and thoughtful appropriated-footage essay on key images and gestures from classical Hollywood cinema.

Social realist masterpiece and 1970s taboo-breaking, progressive work for its nuanced portrayal of sex workers.

A cornucopia of stories-in-songs for children, based on poems by famous (Soviet) Latvian literato Ojārs Vācietis.

An unclassifiable, non-narrative, idea-dense, documentary-found-footage-essay-montage-stream-of-conscious assemblage.

An essay on the art of the late actor-autrice Ronit Elkabetz.

The story of Festival international du jeune cinéma (1965-83) as a Balzacian tale about film festivals and lost illusions.

A woman’s voyage of discovery into the oeuvre of her favourite director: Turkish grandmaster Ömer Kavur.

Polemically essayistic tour (de force) through the history and presence of racial segregation in the US.

Three fables about Havettová’s main theme: help and abuse. A masterpiece of pre-independence Slovak animation!

Ironic yet forgiving look at human foibles and weakness, set to commentary of peasant proverbs.

A meditation on tensions between village and city, tradition and progress, told through the story of three men.

An exploration of a woman's work around the home as something of economic worth instead of her duty.

A brief meditation on film's fundamental frailty as a key condition for cinema's unique beauty.

A son comes home to visit his mother after being away. Trouble beckons... High, casual comedy!

Daring musique concrète version of Robert Flaherty’s 1926 docu-fiction masterpiece, created a half-century later by his daughter Monica.

Elegant, ironic and melancholic essay on authenticity, based on the making of Monica Flaherty’s Moana with Sound.

This Labour of Love – The Housewife sequel considers motherhood as part, but not the essence, of womanhood.

We hear for the first time / The sound of the image itself.

An ironic new look at Suharto-era cinema that finds signs of compromise in stabs at dissident filmmaking.

A remix of all still-existing works of Lino Brocka. Film history as a wild and enlightening trip!

An appropriated-footage trip into everything the lost Philippines' silent cinema might have been.

A wild, modernist version of Jacques Offenbach’s eponymous operetta. A true masterpiece of political entertainment!

A gripping documentary about protest against the South African national rugby team visiting New Zealand in 1981.

A portrait of Slovenian actor Peter Musevski done as a mix of documentary, therapy session and reenactment.

Proto-music video set to duet by Helena Vondráčková and Waldemar Matuška. Pioneering work of pre-independence Slovak animation.

A positively peculiar play with the borders between documentary and fiction, ruminating on manliness and competitiveness.

A major discovery: an early exercise by Turkish grandmaster Ömer Kavur unearthed during the making of Kavur.

An associative animation of photos and paintings, showing mankind’s history and the fortunes and misfortunes of life in a human face.

A key work of Taiwanese cinema, this cheerful musical comedy was deemed subversive for promoting multicultural tolerance.

A monument of masked wrestler cinema in its original, erotic version.

A man and a woman meet in the dark, to soon lose each other again.

An exploration of sight – and its limits. A gorgeous mix of essay and delirium.

A portrait of Singapore – which today looks stridently different, making this an important historical record.

Essay on cultural heritage, its violent appropriation, and mixed feelings provoked by the works of Dalí or Picasso.

A portrait of auteur Drissa Touré and an essay on the limits on Sub-Saharan cinema during the 90s.

Satire on the false happiness provided by consumer goods in an eye-poppingly gorgeous, extremely artificial style.

An almost psychedelically luminous invocation of the Battle of Borodino set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture (1880).