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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one minute movies: The Wolf Ma’am
Nicolas Mahler, Stefan Holaus | 1' | Switzerland | Dutch Premiere
A werewolf joke on the little known genre of domestic knitting comedy. -
Out of Order
Antti Tuomikoski | 3' | Finland | International premiere
An appropriated footage collage on the male gaze – that takes the expression literally. -
Para hacer una película solo hace falta un arma
Santiago Sein | 159' | Argentina | World premiere
A chapter of Argentinian film history forgotten by books and forsaken by its participants – finally remembered. -
peter kammerer/Pasolini
Antonia Weiße | 30' | Germany | World premiere
Sociologist-translator Peter Kammerer remembers meetings with Pier Paolo Pasolini. A deeply moving memoir. -
A Philological Quandary, Kenneth Anger’s ¡Que Viva Mexico! (1950)
Bruce Posner | 10' | USA | World premiere
A lyrical multi-screen comparison of moments from Eisenstein’s ¡Que Viva Mexico! and Anger’s Scorpio Rising. -
The Prague Castle
Alexander Hackenschmied | 12' | Czechoslovakia | No premiere
An intricate study of Prague castle. An audiovisual symphony of architectural arcs and lines. -
Rum
Claes Söderquist | 24' | Sweden | World premiere
Split-screen study of a manor’s interiors set to Biber’s Rosary Sonatas (~1606). A cinematic adagio. -
School Assignment
Alexander Hackenschmied, Elmar Klos | 4' | Czechoslovakia | No premiere
A young boy has trouble writing an essay for school. Solution: a shoe commercial! -
Soldier’s Story
Cenek Zahradnícek, Vladimír Šmejkal | 8' | Czechoslovakia | No premiere
A young man’s nightmare about being called up to the army and fighting in war. -
The Thing in the Coffin
Péter Lichter | 62' | Hungary | World premiere
Dracula as an appropriated-footage film from earlier vampire movies – a version unlike any other made so far. -
Tiki Tiki
Gerald Potterton | 71' | Canada | No premiere
Psychedelic meta-comedy about animated monkeys making a subversive fairytale musical with Soviet flair. -
Time Will Not Tell
Htoo Lwin Myo | 72' | Myanmar | World premiere
A lecture-performance essay examining some of the earliest pre-cinematic objects portraying Myanmar’s colonial past: magic lantern slides.