Lost Connections (2021)

Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies were the acme of entertainment and the stories were larger than life, as were the venues designed to show them. The film also tracks the eventual decline of the palaces, through to today’s current preservation efforts. A tribute to America’s great art form and the great monuments created for audiences to enjoy them in.

A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test that allowed aboriginies to be exposed to and killed by radiation. He begins a search for a secret that if true, his government has already killed people to keep quiet.

“Marilyn vs. Marilyn” tells the story of a little-known period of Marilyn’s life – the years she spent in New York, trying to became a ‘serious”’ actress, taking lessons with Lee Strasberg and setting up a production company with her photographer and trusted friend, Milton Green. Based on hitherto unpublished – and magical - photos from the Greene archives, the film focuses on the photographic image of a woman who remains one of the greatest legends in the history of cinema… and an enduring enigma.

As notions of civil rights transformed across the world, so was the screen landscape reformed by the ascension of grassroots film movements seeking to challenge the mainstream. Some aspired to push form to its limit; others worked to destabilise what they saw as a homogenous industry, or to provoke questions around gender, sexuality, migration and race.

A collection of bloopers and outtakes from an enormous selection of Hollywood classic productions spanning from the 1930s through the 1980s.

Quebec, on the cusp of the 1960s. The province is on the brink of momentous change. Deftly selecting clips from nearly 200 films from the National Film Board of Canada archives, director Luc Bourdon reinterprets the historical record, offering us a new and distinctive perspective on the Quiet Revolution.

Luiz Roberto Galizia foi uma figura importante para a cena teatral paulistana nas décadas de 1970 e 1980. Foi, também, o tio que a cineasta Ana Galizia não conheceu. A partir do encontro de registros em fotografias, cartas e filmes de Super-8 feitos por ele, a realizadora busca resgatar detalhes da sua vida íntima, trinta anos após a sua morte em decorrência da epidemia da AIDS.

Introduction to an extensive training program for everyone professionally involved in the process of film conservation and film restoration. The realization of this training program was initiated and coordinated by ECIPAR (Bologna-Italy) and the Cineteca del Comune di Bologna. It was produced in co-operation with eleven European film archives and film laboratories and co-financed by the FILM project - FORCE program of the European Community.

At the National Archive of the Moving Images in Portugal, archivists discuss the powerful bond between people and a machine that preserves a very delicate medium.

Documentary on the rise and fall of the Danish silent film industry.

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across Europe following the trail of the lost movie.

Entre as décadas de 40 e 70, o médico sanitarista Noel Nutels percorreu o Brasil tratando da saúde de indígenas, ribeirinhos e sertanejos e filmou muitas de suas expedições em filmes de 16mm. Em 1968 foi convidado a falar sobre a questão indígena à CPI do índio, dias antes do AI5. Imagens inéditas do seu acervo e o único registro de sua voz se unem em "O Índio Cor de Rosa Contra a Fera Invisível" para denunciar o que ele chamou de massacre histórico contra as populações indígenas.

'Atlal (Remnants)' is a fictional documentary that follows Bassam, a Palestinian man in his fifties, on a journey between the past and present. An abandoned school, the remains of a beach club, and a dusty cinema hold Bassam's cherished memories from his life in Qatar. Through personal archives and interviews with Bassam and his wife, Laila, we get a deeper look into their stories—slowly revealing the dismaying thoughts behind Bassam's nostalgia.

Benjamin and Awad run Sudan's national film archive. The two men, who have worked together for more than 40 years, are devoted to protecting their country's visual memories. Home to some 13,000 films, the archive preserves pivotal moments of Sudan's turbulent history and is one of the largest in Africa. But the archive is in a fragile state. Following years of neglect and poor storage, many film reels are turning to dust in Sudan's unforgiving tropical climate. The two friends are determined to turn it around and embark on a mission to save the old films. Will they succeed in preserving Sudan's visual history for future generations before it's too late?

Now I shall sing the second kingdom there where the soul of man is cleansed, made worthy to ascend to Heaven. (Purgatorio: Canto I)

Documentary about documentary filmmaker Stig Wesslén.

Following the restoration of the forgotten Surinamese documentary Oema foe Sranan (1978) this film exposes stories of activism and struggle that enabled the production and distribution of this militant documentary.

Made possible through a unique UK-wide collaboration of national and regional publicly-funded film archives, Lost Connections draws on a century of archive footage that invites reflections on loss, loneliness, isolation, and expressions of desire, optimism, hope and renewal. It is not a film about the pandemic, it is a film about recovery, the human character, sadness and joy, what we really value, and our gradual reconnection with each other, our communities, and the world around us.

After showing us some of Elland’s places of special interest, including the home of one of The Bachelors, we are taken on a tour of local sweet manufacturers Joseph Dobson & Sons. From boiling up the syrup, to stretching the resultant goo and cutting out the individual shapes, each stage of the process of making boiled sweets is demonstrated and explained. The end product is rows of jars of Rainbow Crystals, Yorkshire Mixtures and Voice Tablets selling at 16 pence a Qtr.

Um grupo de amigos aventureiros sai às ruas procurando vítimas inocentes para testemunhar suas brincadeiras absurdas. Perigo e dor fazem parte da jornada desta gangue, que não se cansa de chocar o público.