2025 SCHEDULE
Note: All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles
Monday, March 31
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Presentation of the 2025 Festival
A Conversation with the Curators: Amy Boylan (UNH) and Nicole Gercke (UNH)
11AM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Amy and Nicole present the current lineup, talk about the philosophy and mission of Il Cinema Ritrovato, highlight this year's major themes and sponsors, and respond to questions from the public. Roundtable discussion with representatives from our major sponsors featuring: Scott Smith (Responsible Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project), Monda Kindle (Office of Community, Equity, and Diversity), Fiona Wilson (Sustainability Institute), Katie Umans (Center for the Humanities), and Jesse Morrell (COLSA)
A Conversation with the Curators: Amy Boylan (UNH) and Nicole Gercke (UNH)
11AM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Amy and Nicole present the current lineup, talk about the philosophy and mission of Il Cinema Ritrovato, highlight this year's major themes and sponsors, and respond to questions from the public. Roundtable discussion with representatives from our major sponsors featuring: Scott Smith (Responsible Governance and Sustainable Citizenship Project), Monda Kindle (Office of Community, Equity, and Diversity), Fiona Wilson (Sustainability Institute), Katie Umans (Center for the Humanities), and Jesse Morrell (COLSA)
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Dorothy Arzner, une pionnière à Hollywood (Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist)
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg • France • 2023 • 53 min • language: English
**Introduction by Holly Cashman (UNH)
Arzner began directing films in the silent era during the 1920s. At the time, the rigid moral codes that would later be applied to movies were not in effect and filmmakers had more leeway to depict bodies, explore sexuality, and break taboos. This documentary examines her life, her films, and her contributions to innovations in filmmaking. Directors and sisters, Clara and Julia Kuperberg, who run Wichita Films, are dedicated to retrieving and restoring the history of women in filmmaking to the official record.
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/dorothy-arzner-une-pionniere-a-hollywood/
Trailer: https://www.wichitafilms.com/en/#nosfilms
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg • France • 2023 • 53 min • language: English
**Introduction by Holly Cashman (UNH)
Arzner began directing films in the silent era during the 1920s. At the time, the rigid moral codes that would later be applied to movies were not in effect and filmmakers had more leeway to depict bodies, explore sexuality, and break taboos. This documentary examines her life, her films, and her contributions to innovations in filmmaking. Directors and sisters, Clara and Julia Kuperberg, who run Wichita Films, are dedicated to retrieving and restoring the history of women in filmmaking to the official record.
festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/dorothy-arzner-une-pionniere-a-hollywood/
Trailer: https://www.wichitafilms.com/en/#nosfilms
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Golden Eighties
3PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Chantal Akerman • 1986 • Italy • 96 min • language: French with English subtitles
**Introduction by Catherine Moran (UNH)
This ensemble burlesque musical comedy revolves around a group of people who work in a shopping mall in 1980s Belgium. The daughter of Holocaust survivors known for her feminist perspective, director Akerman includes the themes of feminism, consumerism, and Jewish identity in this small-scale production that offers a contrast to big technicolor MGM musicals like The Wizard of Oz (see above), while also exploring radical happiness and hope in the face of painful history and memories.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/golden-eighties/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Ijqwvuac4
Restored in 4K in 2024 by the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique in collaboration with Chantal Akerman Foundation at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.
3PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Chantal Akerman • 1986 • Italy • 96 min • language: French with English subtitles
**Introduction by Catherine Moran (UNH)
This ensemble burlesque musical comedy revolves around a group of people who work in a shopping mall in 1980s Belgium. The daughter of Holocaust survivors known for her feminist perspective, director Akerman includes the themes of feminism, consumerism, and Jewish identity in this small-scale production that offers a contrast to big technicolor MGM musicals like The Wizard of Oz (see above), while also exploring radical happiness and hope in the face of painful history and memories.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/golden-eighties/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6Ijqwvuac4
Restored in 4K in 2024 by the Cinémathèque royale de Belgique in collaboration with Chantal Akerman Foundation at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory.
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Peccato che sia una canaglia (Too Bad She's Bad)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alessandro Blasetti • 1954 • Italy • 95 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Anna Rockwell (UNH)
This light-hearted comedy stars, for the first time together, the young power duo of Sophia Loren (in her first major feature film) and Marcello Mastroianni (in his first comedic role). Often categorized as part of the “pink neorealism” genre—romantic comedies and dramas set among the bleak conditions of post-war Italy--the film takes place in working-class communities in Rome in the early 1950s. Famed neorealist director Vittorio De Sica stars in the film as well.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/peccato-che-sia-una-canaglia/
Trailer (original, no English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4RWHrRKuc4
The 4K digital restoration was carried out by CSC - Cinecittà
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alessandro Blasetti • 1954 • Italy • 95 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Anna Rockwell (UNH)
This light-hearted comedy stars, for the first time together, the young power duo of Sophia Loren (in her first major feature film) and Marcello Mastroianni (in his first comedic role). Often categorized as part of the “pink neorealism” genre—romantic comedies and dramas set among the bleak conditions of post-war Italy--the film takes place in working-class communities in Rome in the early 1950s. Famed neorealist director Vittorio De Sica stars in the film as well.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/peccato-che-sia-una-canaglia/
Trailer (original, no English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4RWHrRKuc4
The 4K digital restoration was carried out by CSC - Cinecittà
Tuesday, April 1st
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Celluloid Underground
12:30PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ehsan Khoshbakht • 2023 • UK/Iran • 80 min • language: English and Farsi with English subtitles
**Introduction by Will Smiley (UNH)
This documentary made by the co-director of the Cinema Ritrovato festival tells the story of the filmmaker’s love of cinema by integrating several parallel storylines. Importantly, the film honors cinephile hero Ahmad Jorghanian, a collector who searched for, rescued and preserved a hundred years of Iranian film history in hiding places all over Tehran after the Revolution despite being arrested and tortured for these activities.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/celluloid-underground/
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/864339969
12:30PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ehsan Khoshbakht • 2023 • UK/Iran • 80 min • language: English and Farsi with English subtitles
**Introduction by Will Smiley (UNH)
This documentary made by the co-director of the Cinema Ritrovato festival tells the story of the filmmaker’s love of cinema by integrating several parallel storylines. Importantly, the film honors cinephile hero Ahmad Jorghanian, a collector who searched for, rescued and preserved a hundred years of Iranian film history in hiding places all over Tehran after the Revolution despite being arrested and tortured for these activities.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/celluloid-underground/
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/864339969
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Tini Zabutykh Predkiv (Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors)
2PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Sergej Paradžanov • 1966 • USSR (Ukraine) • 96 min • language: Ukranian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Svetlana Peshková (UNH)
Based on the 1912 novel of the same name, this film is a psychedelic “Romeo and Juliet” folktale with avant-garde camera work set in the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Ukraine. This film is one of the most important Ukranian language films of all time for its focus on Ukranian folk traditions and as a poetic alternative to socialist realism. Paradžanov is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of cinema.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/tini-zabutykh-predkiv/
Trailer (original, no English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIzpWNG23Y
Restored in 4K by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in collaboration with the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre and in association with the Dovzhenko Film Studio.
2PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Sergej Paradžanov • 1966 • USSR (Ukraine) • 96 min • language: Ukranian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Svetlana Peshková (UNH)
Based on the 1912 novel of the same name, this film is a psychedelic “Romeo and Juliet” folktale with avant-garde camera work set in the Carpathian Mountains of Eastern Ukraine. This film is one of the most important Ukranian language films of all time for its focus on Ukranian folk traditions and as a poetic alternative to socialist realism. Paradžanov is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in the history of cinema.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/tini-zabutykh-predkiv/
Trailer (original, no English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeIzpWNG23Y
Restored in 4K by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory in collaboration with the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre and in association with the Dovzhenko Film Studio.
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La Noire de ... (Black Girl)
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ousmane Sembène • 1966 • Senegal • 65 min • language: French with English subtitles
**Introduction by Amy Boylan (UNH)
The film’s original French language title is La noire de…, which captures Sembène’s focus on the progressive attempts on the part of her French colonizer employers to erase the protagogonist’s Senegalese heritage and identity as she works for them in their home in France. Filmmakers and scholars Samba Gadjigo and Jason Silverman write that "in 1961, shortly after Senegal declared its independence from France, Ousmane Sembène, a self-educated dockworker, assigned himself an impossible task: to create a true African cinema as a ‘night school’ for his people. His explosive debut – a film described as the first African feature (true in spirit, if not in fact) – inspired a form of fearless, socially engaged, and uncompromising cinema across the globe.” Sembène repositions the political/social lens while at the same time creating stunning images in black and white.
content warning: suicide
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/la-noire-de/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnN5Scc3ldY
Restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Sembène estate, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel, INA, Éclair laboratoires and Centre National de Cinématographie. Restoration carried out at Cineteca di Bologna/L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory.
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Paisà (Paisan)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alessandro Blasetti • 1954 • Italy • 95 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Amy Boylan (UNH)
Rossellini’s follow up to Rome Open City (1945) and one of the iconic neorealist films made in Italy in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The film’s six episodes follow the liberation of Italy from the Nazi-Fascists, highlighting the interactions between Italian civilians, Italian Partisans, and the Allied Forces. True to neorealist form, the film features documentary-like visuals and a mix of professional and non-professional actors.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/paisa/
Intro by Martin Scorcese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU7CC9GZ5tI
The 4k digital restoration of the film was carried out at the Cineteca di Bologna’s L’immagine ritrovata lab.
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alessandro Blasetti • 1954 • Italy • 95 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Amy Boylan (UNH)
Rossellini’s follow up to Rome Open City (1945) and one of the iconic neorealist films made in Italy in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The film’s six episodes follow the liberation of Italy from the Nazi-Fascists, highlighting the interactions between Italian civilians, Italian Partisans, and the Allied Forces. True to neorealist form, the film features documentary-like visuals and a mix of professional and non-professional actors.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/paisa/
Intro by Martin Scorcese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU7CC9GZ5tI
The 4k digital restoration of the film was carried out at the Cineteca di Bologna’s L’immagine ritrovata lab.
Wednesday, April 2nd
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Public Lecture by Alexis Mason and Jake Webb (Portsmouth Public Media TV)
The Importance of Public Media
12PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alexis Mason is the President and Jake Webb is the Studio Operations Manager of Portsmouth Public Media TV. For over 14 years, PPMtv has been the heart of Portsmouth, bringing local stories, arts, and culture to your screen. for more information see below:
The Importance of Public Media
12PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alexis Mason is the President and Jake Webb is the Studio Operations Manager of Portsmouth Public Media TV. For over 14 years, PPMtv has been the heart of Portsmouth, bringing local stories, arts, and culture to your screen. for more information see below:
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Documentary Shorts by Vittorio De Seta
2PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Vittorio De Seta • 1954-1959 • Italy • 66 min •
**Introduction by Nicole Gercke (UNH)
A series of poetic, visually stunning short documentaries shot primarily in rural Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria and focused on the rhythms of life among communities of farmers, minders, fishermen, and shepherds. The films capture old traditions as the economic boom and industrialization are beginning to reshape the country. There is little dialog and no voiceover narration so that viewers can immerse themselves completely in the vivid colors and mesmerizing editing. This year's program:
• Parabola d’Oro (Golden Parable), 1955, 11’
• Pastori di Orgosolo (Orgosolo’s Shepherds), 1958, 12’
• Un Giorno in Barbagia (A Day in Barbagia), 1958, 11’
• Islands of Fire (Isole di Fuoco), 1954, 11’
Two bonus shorts to complete the program:
• To Be in Awe: Wisdom from a 96 Year Old, Reflections of Life Films, 2024, 12’
• Omelia Contadina (Peasant Homily), Alice Rohrwacher and JR, France-Italy, 2019, 9’
Restored by the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation.
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Le meraviglie (The Wonders)
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alice Rohrwacher • 2014 • Italy • 110 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Tejas Aralere (UNH)
This Grand Prix winner - top award - at Cannes (2014) tells the story of a family of beekeepers trying to preserve traditional agricultural practices in rural Italy. It is a coming-of-age story for the eldest daughter, Gelsomina, who must navigate life with a rigid and principled father and his expectations of her, adolesence, identity, and budding romantic feelings. Like her other film being screened during the CRNH festival, La Chimera, here, too, one sees Rohrwacher’s signature blend of neorealism and magical realism. Both films also star Rohrwacher’s sister, Alba.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5179
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TprTVWZF2E0
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alice Rohrwacher • 2014 • Italy • 110 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Tejas Aralere (UNH)
This Grand Prix winner - top award - at Cannes (2014) tells the story of a family of beekeepers trying to preserve traditional agricultural practices in rural Italy. It is a coming-of-age story for the eldest daughter, Gelsomina, who must navigate life with a rigid and principled father and his expectations of her, adolesence, identity, and budding romantic feelings. Like her other film being screened during the CRNH festival, La Chimera, here, too, one sees Rohrwacher’s signature blend of neorealism and magical realism. Both films also star Rohrwacher’s sister, Alba.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/5179
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TprTVWZF2E0
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Peter Weir • 1975 • Australia • 110 min • language: English
**Introduction by Susan Curry (UNH)
Set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australia at a boarding school for young women, and aptly described as “a study of repression” by cinema scholar Guido Fink, this film explores the mysterious disappearance of a group of students and their chaperone during a Valentine’s Day field trip to visit the geographical formation known by white settlers as Hanging Rock. The dreamy and haunting images set a backdrop an exploration of issues of class, gender and sexuality, racism and colonialism.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/picnic-at-hanging-rock/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWqCHKtKPKI
Restored in 4K in 2022 by Acid Pictures in collaboration with Second Sight Films at The Grainery laboratory, from the original camera negative preserved by Australian National Film and Sound Archive.
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Peter Weir • 1975 • Australia • 110 min • language: English
**Introduction by Susan Curry (UNH)
Set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australia at a boarding school for young women, and aptly described as “a study of repression” by cinema scholar Guido Fink, this film explores the mysterious disappearance of a group of students and their chaperone during a Valentine’s Day field trip to visit the geographical formation known by white settlers as Hanging Rock. The dreamy and haunting images set a backdrop an exploration of issues of class, gender and sexuality, racism and colonialism.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/picnic-at-hanging-rock/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWqCHKtKPKI
Restored in 4K in 2022 by Acid Pictures in collaboration with Second Sight Films at The Grainery laboratory, from the original camera negative preserved by Australian National Film and Sound Archive.
Thursday, April 3rd
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The Circus
12:30PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Charlie Chaplin • 1928 • USA • 71 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**with special live musical accompaniment by CRNH veteran Jeff Rapsis (UNH)
**Introduction by Emily Hughes and Nolan Juneau (UNH)
One of Federico Fellini’s favorites, The Circus was Chaplin’s final film made during the silent era and is often seen as a metaphor for how he saw his place in the transition from silent to sound cinema. The Circus includes hilarious comedy bits and a bittersweet love story. Some of Chaplin’s most famous scenes and themes make an appearance, the parallels to Fellini’s fascination with clowns are on display, and the sentimentality might bring on a few tears.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/the-circus/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0mfJ0RXvV0
The 4k digital restoration of the film was carried out at the Cineteca di Bologna’s L’immagine ritrovata lab.
12:30PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Charlie Chaplin • 1928 • USA • 71 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**with special live musical accompaniment by CRNH veteran Jeff Rapsis (UNH)
**Introduction by Emily Hughes and Nolan Juneau (UNH)
One of Federico Fellini’s favorites, The Circus was Chaplin’s final film made during the silent era and is often seen as a metaphor for how he saw his place in the transition from silent to sound cinema. The Circus includes hilarious comedy bits and a bittersweet love story. Some of Chaplin’s most famous scenes and themes make an appearance, the parallels to Fellini’s fascination with clowns are on display, and the sentimentality might bring on a few tears.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/the-circus/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0mfJ0RXvV0
The 4k digital restoration of the film was carried out at the Cineteca di Bologna’s L’immagine ritrovata lab.
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Public Lecture by Avie Fields (The Horror Advocate)
The Horror Advocate's Guide to Streaming with Intention
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
The Horror Advocate's Guide to Streaming with Intention changes how we engage with horror content. Using a unique coding and tagging system, it walks viewers through horror films with consideration toward empathy, equity, impact, and depth, shifting perspectives on where horror belongs and how it shows up. While other genres may act as placebos, horror serves as the treatment.
Note: This lecture will include videos but will not use violent clips of any kind. for more information on The Horror Advocate:
The Horror Advocate's Guide to Streaming with Intention
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
The Horror Advocate's Guide to Streaming with Intention changes how we engage with horror content. Using a unique coding and tagging system, it walks viewers through horror films with consideration toward empathy, equity, impact, and depth, shifting perspectives on where horror belongs and how it shows up. While other genres may act as placebos, horror serves as the treatment.
Note: This lecture will include videos but will not use violent clips of any kind. for more information on The Horror Advocate:
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La Casa dalle finestre che ridono (The House of the Laughing Windows)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Pupi Avati • 1976 • Italy • 110 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Jim Parsons (UNH)
Considered one of the best of its genre, this thriller/gothic/horror film set in the 1950s doubles as a political allegory about Italian society and identity after the fall of Mussolini’s Fascist regime. It draws on the unsettling elements of its location in the backwaters of Emilia Romagna, the director’s native region. “The idea came from one of the stories that Avati used to listen to as a child, next to a fireplace which cast a flickering light into the dark corners of a country house filled with strange sounds and phantoms” (Andrea Maioli).
content note: violence, general creepiness
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/la-casa-dalle-finestre-che-ridono/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlpYlK7aQNc
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Pupi Avati • 1976 • Italy • 110 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Jim Parsons (UNH)
Considered one of the best of its genre, this thriller/gothic/horror film set in the 1950s doubles as a political allegory about Italian society and identity after the fall of Mussolini’s Fascist regime. It draws on the unsettling elements of its location in the backwaters of Emilia Romagna, the director’s native region. “The idea came from one of the stories that Avati used to listen to as a child, next to a fireplace which cast a flickering light into the dark corners of a country house filled with strange sounds and phantoms” (Andrea Maioli).
content note: violence, general creepiness
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/la-casa-dalle-finestre-che-ridono/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlpYlK7aQNc
Friday, April 4th
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Nujum An-Nahar (Stars in Broad Daylight)
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ossama Mohamed • 1988 • Syria • 105 min • language: Arabic with English intertitles
**Introduction by Nicole Ruane (UNH)
Widely considered the most influential Syrian film of all time, this rural family drama doubles as an allegory for life during the authoritarian Ba’athist regime. Ironically, two weddings serve as the setting for the chaotic dissolution of the family.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/nujum-an-nahar/
Restored in 4K in 2024 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in collaboration with Ossama Mohammed, with funding provided by Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. The restoration used the best surviving element outside Syria, a 35mm positive print acquired by a German television network in the 1990s. Grading validated by Ossama Mohammed.
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ossama Mohamed • 1988 • Syria • 105 min • language: Arabic with English intertitles
**Introduction by Nicole Ruane (UNH)
Widely considered the most influential Syrian film of all time, this rural family drama doubles as an allegory for life during the authoritarian Ba’athist regime. Ironically, two weddings serve as the setting for the chaotic dissolution of the family.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/nujum-an-nahar/
Restored in 4K in 2024 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in collaboration with Ossama Mohammed, with funding provided by Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. The restoration used the best surviving element outside Syria, a 35mm positive print acquired by a German television network in the 1990s. Grading validated by Ossama Mohammed.
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Laura Poitras • 2022 • USA • 117 min • language: English
**Introduction by Catherine Peebles (UNH)
This magnificent documentary about the life and work of photographer, artist and activist Nan Goldin weaves together her traumatic childhood and the tragic loss of her sister with her early days in New York City as she developed her groundbreaking photographic style and her recent campaign against the Sackler family’s attempts to distance themselves from their involvement in the opioid epidemic by donating millions to prestigious museums around the world. It feels both epic and extremely intimate at the same time. Director Laura Poitras received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2015 for Citizenfour, her film about Edward Snowden.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD5pYQiT1D4
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Laura Poitras • 2022 • USA • 117 min • language: English
**Introduction by Catherine Peebles (UNH)
This magnificent documentary about the life and work of photographer, artist and activist Nan Goldin weaves together her traumatic childhood and the tragic loss of her sister with her early days in New York City as she developed her groundbreaking photographic style and her recent campaign against the Sackler family’s attempts to distance themselves from their involvement in the opioid epidemic by donating millions to prestigious museums around the world. It feels both epic and extremely intimate at the same time. Director Laura Poitras received an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2015 for Citizenfour, her film about Edward Snowden.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/all-the-beauty-and-the-bloodshed/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD5pYQiT1D4
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The Warriors
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Walter Hill • 1979 • USA • 93 min • language: English
**Introduction by Elke Nash (UNH)
Set in a fictional New York in the late 1970s, this cult film is both time- and place-specific as well as “outside of time”; both classical and contemporary; a movie and a staged play. The story is an adaptation of Xenophon’s Anabasis in which a group of gang members heroically navigate their way home—on foot, in cars, on the subway—through a hostile city full of rival gangs. Director Walter Hill writes: I liked the idea of telling a story based on Greek history. Specifically, Anabasis relocated to a futuristic, sci-fi setting… When you create science fiction there is often the temptation to render it completely abstract. I thought that the challenge would be to make it simultaneously realist and fantastic; I wanted to combine these two elements in order to turn it into a dark comic book.”
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAn_PrquNIYwww.youtube.com/watch?v=IAn_PrquNIY
Restored in 4K by Arrow Films in 2023.
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Walter Hill • 1979 • USA • 93 min • language: English
**Introduction by Elke Nash (UNH)
Set in a fictional New York in the late 1970s, this cult film is both time- and place-specific as well as “outside of time”; both classical and contemporary; a movie and a staged play. The story is an adaptation of Xenophon’s Anabasis in which a group of gang members heroically navigate their way home—on foot, in cars, on the subway—through a hostile city full of rival gangs. Director Walter Hill writes: I liked the idea of telling a story based on Greek history. Specifically, Anabasis relocated to a futuristic, sci-fi setting… When you create science fiction there is often the temptation to render it completely abstract. I thought that the challenge would be to make it simultaneously realist and fantastic; I wanted to combine these two elements in order to turn it into a dark comic book.”
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAn_PrquNIYwww.youtube.com/watch?v=IAn_PrquNIY
Restored in 4K by Arrow Films in 2023.
Saturday, April 5th
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The Wizard of Oz
11AM - **venue change** now in MUB Theater 1
Victor Fleming • 1939 • USA • 102 min • language: English
*Introduction by Nicole Gercke (UNH)
While not a huge hit upon its release in 1939, this classic has since become a pillar of popular culture in the US. Countless adults can remember being terrified as children by the flying monkeys, and enchanted by the ruby slippers. The psychoanalytic interpretations of the plot are many, its influence on subsequent filmmakers (e.g., David Lynch, see below) is notable, and its relevance is evident in numerous remakes including The Wiz (1978) starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, and the phenomenal success of 2024’s Wicked.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2zdYIF5DAY
This 4K restoration was carried out by Warner Brothers. This screening sponsored by:
11AM - **venue change** now in MUB Theater 1
Victor Fleming • 1939 • USA • 102 min • language: English
*Introduction by Nicole Gercke (UNH)
While not a huge hit upon its release in 1939, this classic has since become a pillar of popular culture in the US. Countless adults can remember being terrified as children by the flying monkeys, and enchanted by the ruby slippers. The psychoanalytic interpretations of the plot are many, its influence on subsequent filmmakers (e.g., David Lynch, see below) is notable, and its relevance is evident in numerous remakes including The Wiz (1978) starring Diana Ross and Michael Jackson, and the phenomenal success of 2024’s Wicked.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2zdYIF5DAY
This 4K restoration was carried out by Warner Brothers. This screening sponsored by:
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**** Costume contest!! ****
Come dressed in a Wizard of Oz - The Wiz - Wicked inspired costume for a chance to win prizes!! |
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Vražda Ing. Čerta (Murdering the Devil)
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ester Krumbachová • 1970 • Czechosolovakia • 75 min • language: Czech with English intertitles
**Introduction by Elizabeth Stine (UNH)
A member of the Czech New Wave, Krumbachová’s cinematic mission was to dismantle patriarchal structures. This film tells the story of a woman who hopes that a childhood friend and guest from hell will rescue her from her lonely and boring life. When things don’t turn out as she’d hoped, the film spirals into chaos, gluttony, revenge. Krumbachova, who was a screenwriter, costume designer, and stage designer, also wrote the screenplay for 1966’s groundbreaking film Daisies (screened at CRNH in 2023).
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/vrazda-ing-certa/
Restored in 4K in 2023 by Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in collaboration with Národní filmový archiv and Státní Fond Kinematografie at UPP and Soundsquare Studios laboratories, from the original image and sound negatives.
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ester Krumbachová • 1970 • Czechosolovakia • 75 min • language: Czech with English intertitles
**Introduction by Elizabeth Stine (UNH)
A member of the Czech New Wave, Krumbachová’s cinematic mission was to dismantle patriarchal structures. This film tells the story of a woman who hopes that a childhood friend and guest from hell will rescue her from her lonely and boring life. When things don’t turn out as she’d hoped, the film spirals into chaos, gluttony, revenge. Krumbachova, who was a screenwriter, costume designer, and stage designer, also wrote the screenplay for 1966’s groundbreaking film Daisies (screened at CRNH in 2023).
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/vrazda-ing-certa/
Restored in 4K in 2023 by Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in collaboration with Národní filmový archiv and Státní Fond Kinematografie at UPP and Soundsquare Studios laboratories, from the original image and sound negatives.
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Gojira (Godzilla)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ishiro Honda • 1954 • Japan • 97 min • language: Japanese with English intertitles
**Introduction by Ann Zimo (UNH)
The film that spawned a genre and innumerable spinoffs. Despite the campy reputation, this is a serious film that depicts a community coming together to defeat the terrifying spectre of nuclear holocaust. It is a big budget (five times that of the typical Japanese production at the time) reckoning with the horrors of Hiroshima that grounds it self in documentary-like visuals. Cineteca di Bologna scholar Anthony Meneghelli comments that the “most unforgettable character in the film, aside from the monster, is Dr. Serizawa, who unwittingly discovers a device that destroys oxygen (today we would call it an “oxygen depletion system” that got out of hand). His torment when faced with the deadly symbiosis between science and mass destruction remains, in my view, more convincing than the one displayed by Oppenheimer in Nolan’s excellent film.”
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVONRrcn9TI
Restored in 4K by Toho at Toho Archive laboratory
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Ishiro Honda • 1954 • Japan • 97 min • language: Japanese with English intertitles
**Introduction by Ann Zimo (UNH)
The film that spawned a genre and innumerable spinoffs. Despite the campy reputation, this is a serious film that depicts a community coming together to defeat the terrifying spectre of nuclear holocaust. It is a big budget (five times that of the typical Japanese production at the time) reckoning with the horrors of Hiroshima that grounds it self in documentary-like visuals. Cineteca di Bologna scholar Anthony Meneghelli comments that the “most unforgettable character in the film, aside from the monster, is Dr. Serizawa, who unwittingly discovers a device that destroys oxygen (today we would call it an “oxygen depletion system” that got out of hand). His torment when faced with the deadly symbiosis between science and mass destruction remains, in my view, more convincing than the one displayed by Oppenheimer in Nolan’s excellent film.”
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVONRrcn9TI
Restored in 4K by Toho at Toho Archive laboratory
Sunday, April 6th
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The Decameron
11AM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Pier Paolo Pasolini • 1971 • Italy • 106 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Joseph Marquette (PHS)
In this bawdy and controversial film, Pasolini reinterprets Boccaccio’s work in order to comment on contemporary society. Although the narrative is still set primarily in medieval Italy, Pasolini re-orders and re-frames a selection of the original novellas to explicitly address class conflict in an attempt to realize his idea of “popular cinema.” Famously lusty nuns and members of the clergy, devious merchants, and the most sincere of young lovers populate this wild adaptation.
content note: nudity, sexual situations
Trailer (original UK/US): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3R7ocHWpk
Restored in collaboration between CSC -Cinecittà and the Cineteca di Bologna.
11AM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Pier Paolo Pasolini • 1971 • Italy • 106 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Joseph Marquette (PHS)
In this bawdy and controversial film, Pasolini reinterprets Boccaccio’s work in order to comment on contemporary society. Although the narrative is still set primarily in medieval Italy, Pasolini re-orders and re-frames a selection of the original novellas to explicitly address class conflict in an attempt to realize his idea of “popular cinema.” Famously lusty nuns and members of the clergy, devious merchants, and the most sincere of young lovers populate this wild adaptation.
content note: nudity, sexual situations
Trailer (original UK/US): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FA3R7ocHWpk
Restored in collaboration between CSC -Cinecittà and the Cineteca di Bologna.
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Mulholland Drive
2PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
David Lynch • 2001 • USA • 146 min • language: English
**Introduction by Scott Smith (UNH)
Exemplary of David Lynch’s surreal, dreamlike, fragmented, neo-noir style, this film is, as Lynch himself described it, “a love story set in the city of dreams.” (Otherwise known as Hollywood.) While that may be technically true, take that with a dose of enigmatic irony and expect high levels of weird. We chose this film to honor the passing of Lynch, an important figure for the Cineteca di Bologna and many of us.. He passed away in early 2025 after evacuation from the Los Angeles wildfires. We are also looking forward to screening it together with his notoriously favorite film, The Wizard of Oz.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KgH9n1c4mM
Restored in 4K in 2021 by StudioCanal at Fotokem/Criterion laboratory from an original negative.
2PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
David Lynch • 2001 • USA • 146 min • language: English
**Introduction by Scott Smith (UNH)
Exemplary of David Lynch’s surreal, dreamlike, fragmented, neo-noir style, this film is, as Lynch himself described it, “a love story set in the city of dreams.” (Otherwise known as Hollywood.) While that may be technically true, take that with a dose of enigmatic irony and expect high levels of weird. We chose this film to honor the passing of Lynch, an important figure for the Cineteca di Bologna and many of us.. He passed away in early 2025 after evacuation from the Los Angeles wildfires. We are also looking forward to screening it together with his notoriously favorite film, The Wizard of Oz.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KgH9n1c4mM
Restored in 4K in 2021 by StudioCanal at Fotokem/Criterion laboratory from an original negative.
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La Chimera
6PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alice Rohrwacher • 2023 • Italy • 134 min • language: Italian with English intertitles
**Introduction by Ivo Van Der Graaf (UNH)
Set in 1980s Tuscany, this latest feature-length film by Rohrwacher follows the story of an archeologist/tomb raider mourning a lost love. It has been compared in spirit to Fellini’s Roma and Rossellini’s neorealist films—a blend of the surreal and hyperreal. Rorhwacher’s trademark themes of cultural and environmental sustainability run throughout, and the film received the Ecoprod Award at Cannes in recognition of its environmentally conscious production practices.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/la-chimera/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG0M8vJgltw
6PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alice Rohrwacher • 2023 • Italy • 134 min • language: Italian with English intertitles
**Introduction by Ivo Van Der Graaf (UNH)
Set in 1980s Tuscany, this latest feature-length film by Rohrwacher follows the story of an archeologist/tomb raider mourning a lost love. It has been compared in spirit to Fellini’s Roma and Rossellini’s neorealist films—a blend of the surreal and hyperreal. Rorhwacher’s trademark themes of cultural and environmental sustainability run throughout, and the film received the Ecoprod Award at Cannes in recognition of its environmentally conscious production practices.
https://festival.ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/la-chimera/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG0M8vJgltw