
Cinema Regained
Programme IFFR 2025
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 Lilac Wind of Paradjanov
A collective labour of love paying homage to one of cinema’s masters: Sergei Parajanov.
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I Am with a Monk
An outstanding example of 1980s Thai action with doses of acerbity and set piece grandeur.
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Mousso fariman
With crisp storytelling, Drissa Touré returns to IFFR, accompanied by Stéphane Mbanga as a co-director.
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No Magic for Socialists
The excavated, mesmerising, underground history of Myanmar’s 1950s horror and genre film industry.
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SATURN RETURN
Daniela Zahlner reimagines the erotic films of Austria’s first film production company.
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Was die Nacht spricht – eine Erzählung
The process of telling the story is as important as the story itself.
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There’s a Fire Burning
The relationship between a diplomat and an actress shifts when one nation invades another.
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Erzählungen eines Kinogehers
The memories of a colossus of German film culture become a moving paean to cinephilia.
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The Jester
A theatre director stages a play on Portuguese independence, where boundaries of time and fiction dissolve.
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The Wide World of Mystery: House and the Brain
A warlock’s curse traps Marianna Gallatin in a never-ending circle of seduction and despair.
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