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Albanian Cinema Project ‘Albanian Cinema Project’ aims to bring a 'new' national cinema to international screens by carrying out restoration projects and filling in the missing pieces of Albanian cinema. It led to many other screenings and exchanges, such as the series of retrospectives of Albanian films curated by independent programmer Louise Burkart from the Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. She has been looking for film materials related to Albania from…

Citizen Kane Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane (1941) has long been widespread acclaimed. The original camera negative was presumed lost in a vault fire in the 1970s. But during the release of the newly restored version last year, the American writer Nicolas Falacci said there is another story. Falacci, who had been checking and selecting the films frame by frame in the preparation of the restoration in 1991, revealed on his…

The long lost American silent film The First Degree was found! The long lost American silent film The First Degree (1923) was digitised and screened with its original score last year. The story started 16 years ago: Chicago filmmaker Stephen Parry drove down to a house in Peoria to look through a film collection in hopes of finding footage for his documentary, where boxes of highly flammable nitrate film reels…

a story of lost and found behind Summer of Soul There is also a story of lost and found behind Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)(2021), the winner of 2022 EE British Academy Film Awards' documentary this year. In the summer of 1969, the Harlem Cultural Festival celebrated African American culture and to promote the continued politics of black pride through music. TV director Hal…