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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The Porter
Ömer Kavur | 10' | Turkey | World premiere
A major discovery: an early exercise by Turkish grandmaster Ömer Kavur unearthed during the making of Kavur. -
A Portrait from Our Century
Sándor Reisenbüchler | 10' | Hungary | None
An associative animation of photos and paintings, showing mankind’s history and the fortunes and misfortunes of life in a human face. -
Romance at Lung Shan Temple
Pai Ko | 98' | Taiwan | None
A key work of Taiwanese cinema, this cheerful musical comedy was deemed subversive for promoting multicultural tolerance. -
Santo contra los jinetes del terror
René Cardona | 83' | Mexico | None
A monument of masked wrestler cinema in its original, erotic version. -
Scar
Haim Bouzaglo | 99' | Israel | None
A man and a woman meet in the dark, to soon lose each other again. -
Sight and Desire (Eyes)
Rajendra Gour | 22' | Singapore | None
An exploration of sight – and its limits. A gorgeous mix of essay and delirium. -
Sunshine Singapore
Rajendra Gour | 7' | Singapore | None
A portrait of Singapore – which today looks stridently different, making this an important historical record. -
Take Your Bags
Camille Billops | 10' | USA | None
Essay on cultural heritage, its violent appropriation, and mixed feelings provoked by the works of Dalí or Picasso. -
Le taxi, le cinéma et moi
Salam Zampaligre | 69' | Burkina Faso | World premiere
A portrait of auteur Drissa Touré and an essay on the limits on Sub-Saharan cinema during the 90s. -
The Wedding of Mr. Marzipan
Vatroslav Mimica | 12' | Croatia | None
Satire on the false happiness provided by consumer goods in an eye-poppingly gorgeous, extremely artificial style. -
The Year of 1812 (War and Peace)
Sándor Reisenbüchler | 12' | Hungary | None
An almost psychedelically luminous invocation of the Battle of Borodino set to Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture (1880).