Experience some of the latest new restorations and rediscoveries on the big screen.

This year we open the festival with Charles Vidor's sultry film noir Gilda (1946), which propelled Rita Hayworth to eternal film stardom to celebrate one hundred years of Columbia Pictures and maverick director Jean Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï (1967), a masterpiece of cool embodied by Alain Delon in a career-defining performance.

We then close the festival with Sergei Parajanov brand new restoration of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, a masterpiece of Ukrainian Poetic Cinema straight from Il Cinema Ritrovato, celebrating the 100th anniversary of his birth.

In between, there’s plenty more in store, including Charles Burnett’s long-lost feature The Annihilation of Fish (1999) in celebration of the film’s 25th anniversary and the 80th birthday of the visionary director; John Sayles’ Oscar®-nominated Lone Star (1996) set on the Tex-Mex border which speak powerfully to the current political climate; José Mojica Marins’ At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul, the first Brazilian-produced horror film newly restored from composite materials; two of Taiwanese director Edward Yang’s rarely screened works A Confucian Confusion (1994) and Mahjong (1996) and Luis Armando Roche’s El Cine Soy Yo (1977), a celebration of the power of cinema set in Venezuela in the most unimaginable circumstances.

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