Cinema Regained
Programme IFFR 2026
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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Hands on Tuesday
Cenek Zahradnícek, Vladimír Šmejkal | 12' | Czechoslovakia | No premiere
A whole day cinematically crystallised in a flow of hand gestures. A Czech amateur film masterpiece. -
Holofiction
Michal Kosakowski | 102' | Germany | Dutch Premiere
An intellectually engaging and emotionally devastating essay film on our shared visual history. -
Máj (May)
Cenek Zahradnícek, E.F. Burian | 11' | Czechoslovakia | No premiere
A sensual stream of images with a fairytale-like character. Witchcraft is in the air. -
Marcel et Monsieur Pagnol
Sylvain Chomet | 90' | France | Dutch Premiere
An animated portrait-reverie about Marseille’s iconic writer-director Marcel Pagnol. -
Marius
Alexander Korda | 127' | France | No premiere
A Marseille-set love story that became an instant classic of regionally rooted realist French cinema. -
Mickey & Richard
Ryan A. White, A.P. Pickle | 70' | USA | World premiere
A portrait of 80s gay porn icon Mickey Squires and the man who performed him, Richard Bernstein. -
Mrs 21 seiki (Mrs. 21st Century)
Katsuo Takahashi | 1' | Japan | No premiere
A hybrid between animation and slide show depicting life in the next millennium. -
Muñecos infernales
Benito Alazraki | 85' | Mexico | No premiere
A cautionary tale with a subtly anti-colonial subtext. A true classic of Mexican horror. -
Nino. 18 giorni
Toni D’Angelo | 89' | Italy | International premiere
An engaging and heart-warming portrait of Neapolitan singer-actor superstar Nino D’Angelo. -
Nordsee ist Mordsee
Hark Bohm | 87' | West Germany | No premiere
A grimly realistic story of teenage rage and hope that became a monument of Young German Cinema. -
one minute movies: Die Billigzeitmaschine
Nicolas Mahler, Stefan Holaus | 1' | Switzerland | World premiere
A lampoon on the perils of losing one’s luggage because of a flight. -
one minute movies: Frankenstein’s Human Resources
Nicolas Mahler, Stefan Holaus | 1' | Switzerland | World premiere
The horrors of modern labour relations revealed in a dryly funny genre spoof.