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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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. -
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A Philological Quandary, Kenneth Anger’s ¡Que Viva Mexico! (1950)
Bruce Posner | 10' | USA | World premiere
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The Prague Castle
Alexander Hackenschmied | 12' | Czechoslovakia | No premiere
An intricate study of Prague castle. An audiovisual symphony of architectural arcs and lines. -
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School Assignment
Alexander Hackenschmied, Elmar Klos | 4' | Czechoslovakia | No premiere
A young boy has trouble writing an essay for school. Solution: a shoe commercial! -
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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 | 71' | Myanmar | World premiere
A lecture-performance essay examining some of the earliest pre-cinematic objects portraying Myanmar’s colonial past: magic lantern slides. -
Tracing to Expo ’70
Liao Hsiang-Hsiung | 97' | Taiwan | No premiere
A musical, a travelogue, a mystery: three kinds of movies in one dazzling film.
