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 Classic Ghosts: Deadly Visitor
Lela Swift | 66' | USA | None
A writer’s stay in a haunted boarding house turns into a marvel of genre filmmaking. -
Cossacks in Exile
Edgar G. Ulmer | 84' | USA | None
Ukrainians, refusing to submit to Russian authorities, are driven out of their country. -
The Death of Dracula
Attila Gödri, Gyopár Buzási, Flóra Kovács, Szabolcs Sztercey, Orsolya Orbán, Boglárka Angéla Farkas, Nóra Miklós, Zsófia Makkai | 60' | Romania | World premiere
A re-imagination of the 1921 classic, and the first Dracula movie directed and produced by Transylvanians. -
Erzählungen eines Kinogehers
Christiane Büchner | 100' | Germany | World premiere
The memories of a colossus of German film culture become a moving paean to cinephilia. -
The Geneva Mechanism: A Ghost Movie
Péter Lichter | 5' | Hungary | None
Digitally dissolved footage of the Geneva Mechanism, the essential component of film projectors. -
The Grey Machine
Péter Lichter | 65' | Hungary | World premiere
An experimental found footage film tells a story of fantasy: a machine that never existed. -
I Am with a Monk
Khom Akadet | 118' | Thailand | None
An outstanding example of 1980s Thai action with doses of acerbity and set piece grandeur. -
Itinéraire de Jean Bricard
Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet | 40' | France | Dutch Premiere
A portrait of a defiant and seemingly ordinary life, and the final collaboration of Straub-Huillet. -
The Jester
José Álvaro Morais | 120' | Portugal | None
A theatre director stages a play on Portuguese independence, where boundaries of time and fiction dissolve. -
Kaja, I’ll Kill You!
Vatroslav Mimica | 82' | Croatia | None
A haunting film about life in a peaceful Dalmation town, until it turns into bloodshed. -
Katha
Sai Paranjpye | 141' | India | None
Sai Paranjpye didn’t arrive at cinema immediately but now she is here, it’s magnificent! -
Kiss
Varun Grover | 17' | India | None
A young filmmaker gets in hot water with the censors over his new film.