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.
Overview of films
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Moana with Sound
Robert J. Flaherty, Frances Hubbard Flaherty, Monica Flaherty | 98' | USA | None
Daring musique concrète version of Robert Flaherty’s 1926 docu-fiction masterpiece, created a half-century later by his daughter Monica. -
Monica in the South Seas
Sami van Ingen, Mika Taanila | 72' | Finland | World premiere
Elegant, ironic and melancholic essay on authenticity, based on the making of Monica Flaherty’s Moana with Sound. -
My Child My Child
Rajendra Gour | 12' | Singapore | None
This Labour of Love – The Housewife sequel considers motherhood as part, but not the essence, of womanhood. -
My Movie Melodies
Okuyama Jun’ichi | 7' | Japan | None
We hear for the first time / The sound of the image itself. -
The Myriad of Faces of the Future Challengers
Yuki Aditya, I Gde Mika | 92' | Indonesia | European premiere
An ironic new look at Suharto-era cinema that finds signs of compromise in stabs at dissident filmmaking. -
National Anarchist: Lino Brocka
Khavn | 70' | Philippines | World premiere
A remix of all still-existing works of Lino Brocka. Film history as a wild and enlightening trip! -
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933)
Khavn | 62' | Philippines | World premiere
An appropriated-footage trip into everything the lost Philippines’ silent cinema might have been. -
Orpheus in der Unterwelt
Horst Bonnet | 87' | DDR | None
A wild, modernist version of Jacques Offenbach’s eponymous operetta. A true masterpiece of political entertainment! -
Patu!
Merata Mita | 112' | New Zealand | None
A gripping documentary about protest against the South African national rugby team visiting New Zealand in 1981. -
Pero
Damjan Kozole | 98' | Slovenia | World premiere
A portrait of Slovenian actor Peter Musevski done as a mix of documentary, therapy session and reenactment. -
Pieseň
Jaroslava Havettová | 5' | Czechoslovakia | None
Proto-music video set to duet by Helena Vondráčková and Waldemar Matuška. Pioneering work of pre-independence Slovak animation. -
Playing Men
Matjaž Ivanišin | 60' | Croatia | None
A positively peculiar play with the borders between documentary and fiction, ruminating on manliness and competitiveness.