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Join us for the fourth edition of Cinema Rediscovered – a chance to discover some of the finest new digital restorations, contemporary classics and film print rarities from across the globe where they were meant to be experienced – on the big screen.

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A Passion for Remembering: The Films of Maureen Blackwood

A Passion for Remembering: The Films of Maureen Blackwood

We celebrate the work of Black British writer/director Maureen Blackwood, whose 35mm and 16mm films made between 1986 and 1994 have fallen under the radar.

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Analogue Rules

Analogue Rules

A collection of tours, talks, hands-on events and parties dedicaed to analogue film, projection and archiving.

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Mike Hodges and Samira Ahmed at Cinema Rediscovered 2018's outdoor screening of Flash Gordon. Photographer: Jack Offord

Bristol UNESCO City of Film

The fourth edition of Cinema Rediscovered celebrates Bristol's status as UNESCO City of Film, a global recognition of the city's outstanding contribution to film culture.

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Cinema Innovators

Cinema Innovators

Explore the works of lesser known trailblazers and some of the youthful, adventurous, tech-savvy heroes of British film in this series of conversations and film screenings.

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Film Criticism

Film Criticism

We rediscover the art of film criticism with talks, panels and a dedicated workshop for early career critics.

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Gluttony, Decadence and Resistance

Gluttony, Decadence and Resistance

Each of the films served up in this buffet of fear, oppression, desperation and desire hopes to activate its viewers into action.

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Reframing the Archives

Reframing the Archives

For those of you who work with, or are interested in archive film, check out this strand of events and screenings designed to inspire and inform through practice based insights from leading event producers, curators, archivists and film critics.

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Restored and Rediscovered

Restored and Rediscovered

We profile and preview new restorations of classic films before they are re-released in cinemas and also shine new light on lost films which have recently been rediscovered at Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna.

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Scala Rediscovered

Scala Rediscovered

A celebration of the Scala, London's most famous repertory cinema, which showed double-bills of classics, cult movies, horror, animation, LGBT+ and experimental films.

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The Imbalance of Things: the Cinematic Imagination of Nic Roeg

The Balance of Things: the Cinematic Imagination of Nic Roeg

We look at the work of Nic Roeg (Performance, Walkabout, The Man Who Fell to Earth) and his effect and influence on a new generation of filmmakers.

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