Skip to content
29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Cinema Regained

Programme IFFR 2023

A sphere of collective remembrance and imagination offering restored classics, documentaries on film culture, and explorations of cinema’s heritage.

Still: Santo contra los jinetes del terror

Overview of films

  • In My Pocket

    Roze Stiebra | 10' | Soviet Union | None

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

  • The Innerview

    Richard Beymer | 88' | USA | None

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

  • Je t’aime Ronit Elkabetz

    Moran Ifergan | 71' | Israel | International premiere

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

  • Jeune cinéma

    Yves-Marie Mahé | 72' | France | World premiere

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

  • Kavur

    Fırat Özeler | 89' | Turkey | World premiere

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

  • The KKK Boutique Ain’t Just Rednecks

    Camille Billops, James Hatch | 78' | USA | None

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

  • Kontakty

    Jaroslava Havettová | 11' | Czechoslovakia | None

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

  • Kým sa ucho neodbije

    Jaroslava Havettová | 11' | Czechoslovakia | None

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

  • Laada

    Drissa Touré | 80' | Burkina Faso | None

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

  • Labour of Love – The Housewife

    Rajendra Gour | 19' | Singapore | None

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

  • A Man Playing Movie

    Okuyama Jun’ichi | 10' | Japan | None

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

  • Mange ta soupe

    Mathieu Amalric | 67' | France | None

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