2026 SCHEDULE
Note: All films are presented in their original language with English subtitles
Thursday, March 26th
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Sherlock Jr.
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 1
Buster Keaton • USA • 1924 • 45 min • language: English intertitles
**with special live musical accompaniment by CRNH veteran Jeff Rapsis (UNH)
**Introduction by Amy Boylan and Nicole Gercke (UNH)
Buster Keaton’s innovative 1924 film explores the dreams of a lovestruck movie projectionist, where he reinvents himself as the charming detective “Sherlock Jr.” A brilliant testament to silent-era ingenuity, Sherlock Jr. is equal parts breathtaking slapstick stunts and remarkably inventive editing. Known for pushing the boundaries of cinematic techniques, Keaton crafted this surreal comedy with astonishing imagination and precision. Over a century later, it remains a wonder of early cinema with its timeless wit and movie magic.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/sherlock-jr/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSEK1NUPrGA
Restored in 2015 by Cineteca di Bologna and Cohen Film Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory. The restoration used a first generation safety interpositive belonging to the Cohen Collection.
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 1
Buster Keaton • USA • 1924 • 45 min • language: English intertitles
**with special live musical accompaniment by CRNH veteran Jeff Rapsis (UNH)
**Introduction by Amy Boylan and Nicole Gercke (UNH)
Buster Keaton’s innovative 1924 film explores the dreams of a lovestruck movie projectionist, where he reinvents himself as the charming detective “Sherlock Jr.” A brilliant testament to silent-era ingenuity, Sherlock Jr. is equal parts breathtaking slapstick stunts and remarkably inventive editing. Known for pushing the boundaries of cinematic techniques, Keaton crafted this surreal comedy with astonishing imagination and precision. Over a century later, it remains a wonder of early cinema with its timeless wit and movie magic.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/sherlock-jr/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSEK1NUPrGA
Restored in 2015 by Cineteca di Bologna and Cohen Film Collection at L’Immagine Ritrovata Laboratory. The restoration used a first generation safety interpositive belonging to the Cohen Collection.
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Diabolik (Danger: Diabolik)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 1
Mario Bava • Italy • 1968 • 103 min • language: English
**Introduction by Jim Parsons (UNH)
Based on a popular 1960s Italian comic book series created by Angela and Luciana Giussani, sisters from Milan, and inspired by crime serials of the silent era, Diabolik follows the titular thief Diabolik (John Phillip Law) and his girlfriend, Eva Kant (Marisa Mell), as they evade and outwit their antagonist, Inspector Ginko (Michel Piccoli). The film was not well received upon its release, but has since become a kitschy cult classic for its Pop Art visuals and Ennio Morricone’s experimental score. Bava has described the film’s production as “nightmarish” as he and producer Dino De Laurentis clashed over budget, content, and timing.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/diabolik/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w7BewJIpx0
Restored in 4K in 2024 by Paramount Pictures in collaboration with Kino Lorber at Paramount Post Services, from the original 35mm camera negative
Friday, March 27th
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Desert Hearts
2PM - UNH, Hamilton Smith 205
Donna Deitch • 1985 • USA • 91 min • language: English
**Introduction by Shayla Karo (UNH '28)
Donna Deitch’s first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this 1959-set film, adapted from a novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the free-spirited young Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert landscape. With undeniable chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor.
https://www.criterion.com/films/29139-desert-hearts
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAY933ULA2Q
Restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert Elswit and created by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project and the Sundance Institute, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
2PM - UNH, Hamilton Smith 205
Donna Deitch • 1985 • USA • 91 min • language: English
**Introduction by Shayla Karo (UNH '28)
Donna Deitch’s first narrative feature, Desert Hearts, was groundbreaking upon its release in 1985: a love story about two women, made entirely independently, on a shoestring budget, by a woman. In this 1959-set film, adapted from a novel by Jane Rule, straitlaced East Coast professor Vivian Bell (Helen Shaver) arrives in Reno to file for divorce but winds up catching the eye of someone new, the free-spirited young Cay (Patricia Charbonneau), touching off a slow seduction that unfolds against a breathtaking desert landscape. With undeniable chemistry between its two leads, an evocative jukebox soundtrack, and vivid cinematography by Robert Elswit, Desert Hearts beautifully exudes a sense of tender yearning and emotional candor.
https://www.criterion.com/films/29139-desert-hearts
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAY933ULA2Q
Restored 4K digital transfer, supervised by cinematographer Robert Elswit and created by the UCLA Film & Television Archive in conjunction with the Outfest UCLA Legacy Project and the Sundance Institute, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.
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Palestina per principianti (Palestine for Beginners)
4PM - UNH, Hamilton Smith 205
Francesco Merini • 2012 • Italy • 60 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Francesco Merini (Mammut Film)
The first in our series of documentaries by visiting filmmaker Francesco Merini. The film’s extended title (“the sentimental education of a rockabilly bassist”) captures its intimate and personal approach to overwhelmingly large world events. A group of Italian friends from Bologna embark on a trip to teach music to children in a Palestinian refugee camp. While there they form a close relationship with a local family, enjoy new food traditions, and become better educated about the joys and pain of the Palestinian people. All this while bonding and learning across and through a shared interest in music.
https://www.mammutfilm.it/it/?id=chi_siamo&member=francesco_merini&opera=palestina_per_principianti
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWcHa06NrY
4PM - UNH, Hamilton Smith 205
Francesco Merini • 2012 • Italy • 60 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Francesco Merini (Mammut Film)
The first in our series of documentaries by visiting filmmaker Francesco Merini. The film’s extended title (“the sentimental education of a rockabilly bassist”) captures its intimate and personal approach to overwhelmingly large world events. A group of Italian friends from Bologna embark on a trip to teach music to children in a Palestinian refugee camp. While there they form a close relationship with a local family, enjoy new food traditions, and become better educated about the joys and pain of the Palestinian people. All this while bonding and learning across and through a shared interest in music.
https://www.mammutfilm.it/it/?id=chi_siamo&member=francesco_merini&opera=palestina_per_principianti
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMWcHa06NrY
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Smog
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Franco Rossi • 1962 • Italy • 92 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Ivo Van Der Graaff (UNH)
Smog was the first Italian film to be entirely shot in the US, in Los Angeles. This was in 1962. It opened the Venice Film Festival and then disappeared from circulation. It tells the story of a lawyer from Rome who lands in Los Angeles, only to leave 48 hours later lacking the certainties that he possessed before arriving in that futuristic city. Events occur on the boulevards of Los Angeles that the screenwriters had personally witnessed; inside the houses we see characters and situations that at the time might have amazed Italians for whom America was distant and unattainable. Italians who had recently emerged from the war were amazed by the sequences shot in the futuristic Inglewood airport, in Annie Girardot’s house with its swimming pool perched above the city, or the final scenes in Judge House, an enormous transparent sphere that looks more like a spaceship. Smog has remained virtually unknown until now.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/smog-2/
Trailer: https://mubi.com/en/films/smog/trailer
Restored in 4K in 2022 by Cineteca di Bologna and UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Warner Bros. Studio Operations and with the support of Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Restoration carried out at L’Immagine Ritrovata and Warner Bros. Post Production Service – Picture laboratories
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Franco Rossi • 1962 • Italy • 92 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Ivo Van Der Graaff (UNH)
Smog was the first Italian film to be entirely shot in the US, in Los Angeles. This was in 1962. It opened the Venice Film Festival and then disappeared from circulation. It tells the story of a lawyer from Rome who lands in Los Angeles, only to leave 48 hours later lacking the certainties that he possessed before arriving in that futuristic city. Events occur on the boulevards of Los Angeles that the screenwriters had personally witnessed; inside the houses we see characters and situations that at the time might have amazed Italians for whom America was distant and unattainable. Italians who had recently emerged from the war were amazed by the sequences shot in the futuristic Inglewood airport, in Annie Girardot’s house with its swimming pool perched above the city, or the final scenes in Judge House, an enormous transparent sphere that looks more like a spaceship. Smog has remained virtually unknown until now.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/smog-2/
Trailer: https://mubi.com/en/films/smog/trailer
Restored in 4K in 2022 by Cineteca di Bologna and UCLA Film & Television Archive in collaboration with Warner Bros. Studio Operations and with the support of Hollywood Foreign Press Association. Restoration carried out at L’Immagine Ritrovata and Warner Bros. Post Production Service – Picture laboratories
Saturday, March 28th
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Stačka (Strike) with special live concert accompaniment by Dog Lips
12PM doors, 12:30PM show - The Press Room, Portsmouth tickets: $15 advance/$18 day of
Sergej Eisenstein • 1924-1925 • USSR • 95 min • language: English intertitles
**Introduction by Amy Boylan and Nicole Gercke (UNH)
Eisenstein’s first feature film, Strike centers around a pre-Revolutionary Russian factory that erupts into a full-blown strike after a worker commits suicide. It is considered one of the defining films of Soviet realism and montage. Daria Khitrova and Yuri Tsivian observe that “[w]hatever may seem like a flaw in Eisenstein’s first, anarchic feature is, in fact, an attribute. Mismatches; discontinuities; disorienting camera setups; even the shot of a puddle that has been spliced in upside-down – any inanity we encounter in Stachka is there not by mistake but by design. Eisenstein’s is a ruleless film, and it cost him many a struggle to keep it that way.”
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/stacka/
Trailer (original, no English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UQMg3saU4Q
Restored in HD by KinoLorber in 2011, transferred in high-definition from the 35mm restored version by La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
12PM doors, 12:30PM show - The Press Room, Portsmouth tickets: $15 advance/$18 day of
Sergej Eisenstein • 1924-1925 • USSR • 95 min • language: English intertitles
**Introduction by Amy Boylan and Nicole Gercke (UNH)
Eisenstein’s first feature film, Strike centers around a pre-Revolutionary Russian factory that erupts into a full-blown strike after a worker commits suicide. It is considered one of the defining films of Soviet realism and montage. Daria Khitrova and Yuri Tsivian observe that “[w]hatever may seem like a flaw in Eisenstein’s first, anarchic feature is, in fact, an attribute. Mismatches; discontinuities; disorienting camera setups; even the shot of a puddle that has been spliced in upside-down – any inanity we encounter in Stachka is there not by mistake but by design. Eisenstein’s is a ruleless film, and it cost him many a struggle to keep it that way.”
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/stacka/
Trailer (original, no English subtitles): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UQMg3saU4Q
Restored in HD by KinoLorber in 2011, transferred in high-definition from the 35mm restored version by La Cinémathèque de Toulouse
Sunday, March 29th
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La Follia degli altri (The Madness of Others)
10AM - The Music Hall Lounge, Portsmouth
Francesco Merini • 2018 • Italy • 15 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Francesco Merini (Mammut Film)
The short documentary film, La follia degli altri, explores the theme of migration and psychological pain, shedding unprecedented light on a very important but little-discussed issue. Francesco Merini, the filmmaker, retraces the experiences of his father Alberto, one of the first psychiatrists to dedicate his practice to the psychological trauma caused by migration. In 1994, for the first time, he cared for an African patient and from that moment on his professional career was focused on the question: how can someone heal from mental illness when their cultural horizons are completely different from the culture they are surrounded by? (Translated from mammutfilm.it)
Winner, 2018 MigrArti Film Festival
10AM - The Music Hall Lounge, Portsmouth
Francesco Merini • 2018 • Italy • 15 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Francesco Merini (Mammut Film)
The short documentary film, La follia degli altri, explores the theme of migration and psychological pain, shedding unprecedented light on a very important but little-discussed issue. Francesco Merini, the filmmaker, retraces the experiences of his father Alberto, one of the first psychiatrists to dedicate his practice to the psychological trauma caused by migration. In 1994, for the first time, he cared for an African patient and from that moment on his professional career was focused on the question: how can someone heal from mental illness when their cultural horizons are completely different from the culture they are surrounded by? (Translated from mammutfilm.it)
Winner, 2018 MigrArti Film Festival
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Connecting Cultures: Portsmouth/Santarcangelo
10:30AM - The Music Hall Lounge, Portsmouth
Amy Boylan • 2026 • USA/Italy • 15 min • language: English and Italia subtitles
**Presentation of work in progress by Amy Boylan (UNH), Nolan Juneau (UNH '26), Emily Hughes (UNH '26), Alexis Efstratiou (UNH '26), Michael Maccini (UNH '26)
Inspired by the documentary The Lost North End: A Tale of Wreckage and Resistance (Maclin, 2024), this film centers on immigration stories between Italy and Portsmouth, NH. The filmmakers talk to Portsmouth Italians about their ancestors, why they chose to leave Italy, what led them to settle in Portsmouth, and how they built communities there. There is a special focus on Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy, a town in the Emilia Romagna region to which a large number of Portsmouth Italians can trace their ancestry. The film also documents how the efforts of a group of dedicated community members have resulted in the establishment of an officially recognized Friendship City relationship between Portsmouth and Santarcangelo, which has become an important pathway to sustaining, sharing, and celebrating Italian language and culture in Seacoast NH.
10:30AM - The Music Hall Lounge, Portsmouth
Amy Boylan • 2026 • USA/Italy • 15 min • language: English and Italia subtitles
**Presentation of work in progress by Amy Boylan (UNH), Nolan Juneau (UNH '26), Emily Hughes (UNH '26), Alexis Efstratiou (UNH '26), Michael Maccini (UNH '26)
Inspired by the documentary The Lost North End: A Tale of Wreckage and Resistance (Maclin, 2024), this film centers on immigration stories between Italy and Portsmouth, NH. The filmmakers talk to Portsmouth Italians about their ancestors, why they chose to leave Italy, what led them to settle in Portsmouth, and how they built communities there. There is a special focus on Santarcangelo di Romagna, Italy, a town in the Emilia Romagna region to which a large number of Portsmouth Italians can trace their ancestry. The film also documents how the efforts of a group of dedicated community members have resulted in the establishment of an officially recognized Friendship City relationship between Portsmouth and Santarcangelo, which has become an important pathway to sustaining, sharing, and celebrating Italian language and culture in Seacoast NH.
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Matrimonio all'Italiana (Marriage Italian Style)
11:30PM - The Music Hall Lounge, Portsmouth
Vittorio de Sica • 1964 • Italy • 102 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Tiziano Corbelli (delegation from Santarcangelo)
This romantic comedy-drama stars the power duo of iconic Italian actors Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, who find themselves in an on-again, off-again relationship spanning 22 years. A leading figure of neorealist cinema, director Vittorio De Sica paints a vibrant picture of Neapolitan culture during and after World War II. Based on a play by Edoardo De Filippo and with a screenplay by Tonino Guerra, this film is an enduring, timeless classic of Italian cinema with a spirited mix of humor, heartbreak, and alluring charm. The film garnered a number of international nominations and wins for direction and acting during the 1965 awards season.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/matrimonio-allitaliana/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgFec85heuU
Restored in 2014 by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage in collaboration with Surf Film and with contribution from Memory Cinema, at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory
11:30PM - The Music Hall Lounge, Portsmouth
Vittorio de Sica • 1964 • Italy • 102 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Tiziano Corbelli (delegation from Santarcangelo)
This romantic comedy-drama stars the power duo of iconic Italian actors Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, who find themselves in an on-again, off-again relationship spanning 22 years. A leading figure of neorealist cinema, director Vittorio De Sica paints a vibrant picture of Neapolitan culture during and after World War II. Based on a play by Edoardo De Filippo and with a screenplay by Tonino Guerra, this film is an enduring, timeless classic of Italian cinema with a spirited mix of humor, heartbreak, and alluring charm. The film garnered a number of international nominations and wins for direction and acting during the 1965 awards season.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/matrimonio-allitaliana/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgFec85heuU
Restored in 2014 by Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna and Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage in collaboration with Surf Film and with contribution from Memory Cinema, at L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory
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The Lost North End: A Tale of Wreckage and Resilience
3PM - Portsmouth Public Library
Scott Maclin • 2024 • USA • 55 min • language: English and Italian with English subtitles
Introduction by the producers
The Lost North End: A Tale of Wreckage and Resilience is a documentary created by local residents. It tells the story of the North End, a close-knit Italian-American neighborhood in Portsmouth, destroyed by Urban Renewal in the late 1960s. The North End's destruction served as a catalyst for the rise of historic preservation movements in the United States, shifting the focus from demolition to the preservation of valuable historic structures and neighborhoods.
The film features poignant interviews with former residents who recount the vibrant community life, strong family ties, and the devastating impact of losing their homes and businesses. It highlights the resilience of these individuals who, despite displacement, preserved their community traditions and enduring friendships.
This film, directed by Scott Maclin and produced by Laura Pope, Massimo Morgia, and Robyn Aldo, with Julie Gagne contributing interviews, narration, and co-writing, provides a valuable glimpse into the past and a crucial reminder of the importance of preserving our cultural heritage. (Portsmouth Public Library)
3PM - Portsmouth Public Library
Scott Maclin • 2024 • USA • 55 min • language: English and Italian with English subtitles
Introduction by the producers
The Lost North End: A Tale of Wreckage and Resilience is a documentary created by local residents. It tells the story of the North End, a close-knit Italian-American neighborhood in Portsmouth, destroyed by Urban Renewal in the late 1960s. The North End's destruction served as a catalyst for the rise of historic preservation movements in the United States, shifting the focus from demolition to the preservation of valuable historic structures and neighborhoods.
The film features poignant interviews with former residents who recount the vibrant community life, strong family ties, and the devastating impact of losing their homes and businesses. It highlights the resilience of these individuals who, despite displacement, preserved their community traditions and enduring friendships.
This film, directed by Scott Maclin and produced by Laura Pope, Massimo Morgia, and Robyn Aldo, with Julie Gagne contributing interviews, narration, and co-writing, provides a valuable glimpse into the past and a crucial reminder of the importance of preserving our cultural heritage. (Portsmouth Public Library)
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Il Bidone
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Federico Fellini • 1954 • Italy • 112 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Francesco Merini (Mammut Films)
Between the international triumphs of La strada and Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini made this fascinatingly unique film, which has been long overlooked. Largely eschewing the poetic flourishes of the more famous works that bookend it, Il bidone is a dark neorealist crime drama starring a commanding Broderick Crawford as one of the most complex characters in the director’s canon: an aging con man who, having made a career preying on the desperation of poor peasants, suddenly finds that his crooked ways have begun to catch up with him. Masterfully entwining the story’s human grit with elements of humor and pathos, Fellini crafts a searing portrait of a man reckoning with the consequences of his life’s choices that hits with the force of a profound moral tragedy. (Criterion Collection)
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/il-bidone/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctmQQQhg1VQ
Restored by the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory and The Film Foundation in collaboration with Titanus, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Federico Fellini • 1954 • Italy • 112 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Francesco Merini (Mammut Films)
Between the international triumphs of La strada and Nights of Cabiria, Federico Fellini made this fascinatingly unique film, which has been long overlooked. Largely eschewing the poetic flourishes of the more famous works that bookend it, Il bidone is a dark neorealist crime drama starring a commanding Broderick Crawford as one of the most complex characters in the director’s canon: an aging con man who, having made a career preying on the desperation of poor peasants, suddenly finds that his crooked ways have begun to catch up with him. Masterfully entwining the story’s human grit with elements of humor and pathos, Fellini crafts a searing portrait of a man reckoning with the consequences of his life’s choices that hits with the force of a profound moral tragedy. (Criterion Collection)
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/il-bidone/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctmQQQhg1VQ
Restored by the Cineteca di Bologna at L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory and The Film Foundation in collaboration with Titanus, with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
Monday, March 30th
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Rashomon
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Akira Kurosawa • 1950 • Japan • 88 min • language: Japanese with English subtitles
**Introduction by Tejas Aralere (UNH)
This seminal masterpiece by director Akira Kurosawa presents a single crime retold by three men in four conflicting accounts. As each testimony is further shaped by pride, fear, and self-preservation, Rashomon transforms a story of murder into an exploration of the elusiveness of truth and human nature. Awarded the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, the film broke barriers, introducing Japanese cinema to Western audiences, becoming the best known and most widely shown Japanese film of all time. Rashomon remains an influential, defining landmark in international film history.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/920-rashomon
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCZ9TguVOIA
Rashomon was restored by the Academy Film Archive, the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and Kadokawa Pictures, Inc. Funding provided by Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation and The Film Foundation.
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Akira Kurosawa • 1950 • Japan • 88 min • language: Japanese with English subtitles
**Introduction by Tejas Aralere (UNH)
This seminal masterpiece by director Akira Kurosawa presents a single crime retold by three men in four conflicting accounts. As each testimony is further shaped by pride, fear, and self-preservation, Rashomon transforms a story of murder into an exploration of the elusiveness of truth and human nature. Awarded the Golden Lion at the 1951 Venice Film Festival, the film broke barriers, introducing Japanese cinema to Western audiences, becoming the best known and most widely shown Japanese film of all time. Rashomon remains an influential, defining landmark in international film history.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/920-rashomon
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCZ9TguVOIA
Rashomon was restored by the Academy Film Archive, the National Film Center of the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, and Kadokawa Pictures, Inc. Funding provided by Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation and The Film Foundation.
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Run, Lola, Run
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Tom Tykwer • 1998 • Germany • 80 min • language: German with English subtitles
**Introduction by Charles Vannette (UNH)
This extremely fast-paced film gives viewers three different perspectives on the same story (see Rashomon). Its groundbreaking and unconventional heroine (played by Franka Potente), famous for her blazing red hair and punk rock lifestyle, is constantly in motion, and her race against time to save her boyfriend gives rise to philosophical questions about free will, chance, and the impact of even the smallest split-second decision. The techno soundtrack, which runs through almost the entirety of the film, was composed by Tykwer and his collaborators Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil.
https://www.berlinale.de/en/2026/programme/202615578.html
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCYnsUdO6H0
Restored in 4k for the 25th anniversary for Sony Pictures in collaboration with the filmmakers
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Tom Tykwer • 1998 • Germany • 80 min • language: German with English subtitles
**Introduction by Charles Vannette (UNH)
This extremely fast-paced film gives viewers three different perspectives on the same story (see Rashomon). Its groundbreaking and unconventional heroine (played by Franka Potente), famous for her blazing red hair and punk rock lifestyle, is constantly in motion, and her race against time to save her boyfriend gives rise to philosophical questions about free will, chance, and the impact of even the smallest split-second decision. The techno soundtrack, which runs through almost the entirety of the film, was composed by Tykwer and his collaborators Johnny Klimek and Reinhold Heil.
https://www.berlinale.de/en/2026/programme/202615578.html
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCYnsUdO6H0
Restored in 4k for the 25th anniversary for Sony Pictures in collaboration with the filmmakers
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Mississippi Masala
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Mira Nair • 1991 • USA • 118 min • language: English
**Introduction by Madhavi Devasher (UNH)
Mira Nair’s vibrant portrait of a cross-cultural love story, Mississippi Masala, explores the racial and cultural boundaries surrounding a Ugandan Indian woman and a Black man in the American South. Weaving sensuality and history into the legacy of migration and colorism, Nair creates a rich meditation on diaspora, belonging, and desire. This layered portrayal of love and race boldly centers Black and South Asian voices, marking a pivotal moment in 1990s independent cinema and establishing Nair as a defining figure in global filmmaking.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7805-mississippi-masala-the-ocean-of-comings-and-goings
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seHuOmdcJqg
New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Mira Nair and director of photography Ed Lachman.
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Mira Nair • 1991 • USA • 118 min • language: English
**Introduction by Madhavi Devasher (UNH)
Mira Nair’s vibrant portrait of a cross-cultural love story, Mississippi Masala, explores the racial and cultural boundaries surrounding a Ugandan Indian woman and a Black man in the American South. Weaving sensuality and history into the legacy of migration and colorism, Nair creates a rich meditation on diaspora, belonging, and desire. This layered portrayal of love and race boldly centers Black and South Asian voices, marking a pivotal moment in 1990s independent cinema and establishing Nair as a defining figure in global filmmaking.
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7805-mississippi-masala-the-ocean-of-comings-and-goings
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seHuOmdcJqg
New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Mira Nair and director of photography Ed Lachman.
Tuesday, March 31st
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Flickorna (The Girls)
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Mai Zetterling • 1968 • Sweden • 100 min • language: Swedish with English subtitles
**Introduction by Elke Nash (UNH)
A pillar of 1960s feminist cinema, the film centers around a theater company as it rehearses Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace.
Mai Zetterling’s position as a female director in Sweden during the 1960s and 1970s was unusual and often challenged by (predominantly male) reviewers, critics, and executives. In the media, she was frequently portrayed as “aggressive and over the top” (Larsson, 2019: 40), e.g., Harriet Andersson publicly criticized Zetterling’s directing style after their collaboration on Loving Couples (Älskande par, 1964) (Larsson, 2019: 45). As Jansson and Wallenberg (2022) notes, “women in the film industry are positioned as ‘out of place’” (Jansson, Wallenberg, 2022: 202), and their authority is almost always doubted.
https://medium.com/cinesuffragette/the-girls-1968-8e8506c15c4f
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYjhQ37ffV4
Underwent digital restoration in 2k from the original 35mm negative under supervision of the Swedish Film Institute.
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Mai Zetterling • 1968 • Sweden • 100 min • language: Swedish with English subtitles
**Introduction by Elke Nash (UNH)
A pillar of 1960s feminist cinema, the film centers around a theater company as it rehearses Aristophanes’ play Lysistrata in which the Athenian women revolt to force the men to suspend the war and make peace.
Mai Zetterling’s position as a female director in Sweden during the 1960s and 1970s was unusual and often challenged by (predominantly male) reviewers, critics, and executives. In the media, she was frequently portrayed as “aggressive and over the top” (Larsson, 2019: 40), e.g., Harriet Andersson publicly criticized Zetterling’s directing style after their collaboration on Loving Couples (Älskande par, 1964) (Larsson, 2019: 45). As Jansson and Wallenberg (2022) notes, “women in the film industry are positioned as ‘out of place’” (Jansson, Wallenberg, 2022: 202), and their authority is almost always doubted.
https://medium.com/cinesuffragette/the-girls-1968-8e8506c15c4f
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYjhQ37ffV4
Underwent digital restoration in 2k from the original 35mm negative under supervision of the Swedish Film Institute.
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Vogliamo anche le rose (We Want Roses Too)
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alina Marazzi • 2007 • Italy • 84 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Martha Bird (Independent Filmmaker and Writer)
This stunning visual masterpiece is an exuberant testament to the resolve of women of the ’60s and ’70s sexual revolution and feminist movement in Italy. Alina Marazzi takes viewers on a journey through archival footage, advertisements, and colorful images juxtaposed with the true-life struggles and first person narrations of three diverse Italian women: Anita, who is struggling with an oppressive father and the strict rules of her Catholic faith; Teresa, who must resort to a heartbreaking illicit abortion; and Valentina, a militant feminist caught between love and her commitment to the movement.
(From Women Make Movies, https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/we-want-roses-too-vogliamo-anche-le-rose/)
The film’s title is taken from a slogan used during the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike that took place in Lawrence, MA at the height of winter. The strike was a major labor action that crossed national, ethnic, and gender lines, and which was heavily influenced by women who effectively organized their networks across the city.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03PBkOyVcig
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Alina Marazzi • 2007 • Italy • 84 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Martha Bird (Independent Filmmaker and Writer)
This stunning visual masterpiece is an exuberant testament to the resolve of women of the ’60s and ’70s sexual revolution and feminist movement in Italy. Alina Marazzi takes viewers on a journey through archival footage, advertisements, and colorful images juxtaposed with the true-life struggles and first person narrations of three diverse Italian women: Anita, who is struggling with an oppressive father and the strict rules of her Catholic faith; Teresa, who must resort to a heartbreaking illicit abortion; and Valentina, a militant feminist caught between love and her commitment to the movement.
(From Women Make Movies, https://www.wmm.com/catalog/film/we-want-roses-too-vogliamo-anche-le-rose/)
The film’s title is taken from a slogan used during the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike that took place in Lawrence, MA at the height of winter. The strike was a major labor action that crossed national, ethnic, and gender lines, and which was heavily influenced by women who effectively organized their networks across the city.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03PBkOyVcig
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Christopher Strong
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Dorothy Arzner • 1933 • USA • 78 min • language: English
**Introduction by Holly Cashman (UNH)
As a follow-up to the documentary about Dorothy Arzner screened at CRNH last year, we present one of her own films. Arzner was a pioneer in filmmaking and life. The first woman to direct a sound film, she told unconventional stories about women that challenged social norms and gender roles, for example by questioning the institutions of marriage and motherhood. In this pre-code melodrama, Katherine Hepburn (one of Arzner's frequent collaborators), in her first starring role, plays an ambitious and free-spirited aviator who gets caught up in an illicit love affair with a British aristocrat.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/christopher-strong/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFOs8QWtMDU
Warner Archive's Blu-ray restoration from a 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative.
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Dorothy Arzner • 1933 • USA • 78 min • language: English
**Introduction by Holly Cashman (UNH)
As a follow-up to the documentary about Dorothy Arzner screened at CRNH last year, we present one of her own films. Arzner was a pioneer in filmmaking and life. The first woman to direct a sound film, she told unconventional stories about women that challenged social norms and gender roles, for example by questioning the institutions of marriage and motherhood. In this pre-code melodrama, Katherine Hepburn (one of Arzner's frequent collaborators), in her first starring role, plays an ambitious and free-spirited aviator who gets caught up in an illicit love affair with a British aristocrat.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/christopher-strong/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFOs8QWtMDU
Warner Archive's Blu-ray restoration from a 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative.
Wednesday, April 1st
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Winter Kept Us Warm
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
David Secter • 1965 • Canada • 81 min • language: English
**Introduction by Joseph Marquette (UNH)
Known as the first LGBTQ+ film to ever screen at the Cannes Film Festival (as well as the first-ever English-language Canadian film to screen there), Winter Kept Us Warm put Canada’s filmmaking industry on the international map. Set at the University of Toronto in the early 1960s, and directed by a UofT student, it portrays the budding romance between a sophomore campus all-star and a studious freshman. Made on a shoestring budget, with actors working for free and guerilla filmmaking tactics employed to use on-location settings around the city. The film’s soundtrack was composed and recorded by UofT science major, Paul Hoffert, and Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels helped with scriptwriting. Despite receiving some expected criticism about the stilted dialog, uneven acting, and problematic sound, the film also garnered praise from critic Norman Wilner in 2024 who wrote that it was "a breakthrough in its treatment of queer characters as fully dimensional human beings.”
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/winter-kept-us-warm/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOshldy84Q0
Newly restored in 4K by Canadian International Pictures.
1PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
David Secter • 1965 • Canada • 81 min • language: English
**Introduction by Joseph Marquette (UNH)
Known as the first LGBTQ+ film to ever screen at the Cannes Film Festival (as well as the first-ever English-language Canadian film to screen there), Winter Kept Us Warm put Canada’s filmmaking industry on the international map. Set at the University of Toronto in the early 1960s, and directed by a UofT student, it portrays the budding romance between a sophomore campus all-star and a studious freshman. Made on a shoestring budget, with actors working for free and guerilla filmmaking tactics employed to use on-location settings around the city. The film’s soundtrack was composed and recorded by UofT science major, Paul Hoffert, and Saturday Night Live’s Lorne Michaels helped with scriptwriting. Despite receiving some expected criticism about the stilted dialog, uneven acting, and problematic sound, the film also garnered praise from critic Norman Wilner in 2024 who wrote that it was "a breakthrough in its treatment of queer characters as fully dimensional human beings.”
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/proiezione/winter-kept-us-warm/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOshldy84Q0
Newly restored in 4K by Canadian International Pictures.
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Sayat Nova (The Color of Pomegranates)
3PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Sergej Paradžanov • 1969 • Armenia • 77 min • language: Armenian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Svetlana Peshková (UNH)
As a follow-up to last year's screening of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, this year we are presenting another of Parajanov's films, probably his most well known. Criterion describes the film as “a breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, The Color of Pomegranates revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative. The film’s tapestry of folklore and metaphor departed from the realism that dominated the Soviet cinema of its era, leading authorities to block its distribution, with rare underground screenings presenting it in a restructured form.”
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/il-colore-del-melograno-alla-budapest-film-classic-marathon-2022/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsrUqqnPA3Q
New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna.
3PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Sergej Paradžanov • 1969 • Armenia • 77 min • language: Armenian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Svetlana Peshková (UNH)
As a follow-up to last year's screening of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, this year we are presenting another of Parajanov's films, probably his most well known. Criterion describes the film as “a breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, The Color of Pomegranates revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative. The film’s tapestry of folklore and metaphor departed from the realism that dominated the Soviet cinema of its era, leading authorities to block its distribution, with rare underground screenings presenting it in a restructured form.”
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/il-colore-del-melograno-alla-budapest-film-classic-marathon-2022/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsrUqqnPA3Q
New 4K digital restoration, undertaken by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna.
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L'Orchestra
5PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Helmut Failoni and Francesco Merini • 2014 • Italy • 59 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Francesco Merini (Mammut Film)
This documentary film follows the 2012-2013 European tour of The Mozart Orchestra. The orchestra, founded in 2004 in Bologna, Italy by Maestro Claudio Abbado, brings together an international group of some of the best performers in the world, both early career and established classical musicians. Through the use of concert footage and interviews, the film gives a glimpse into the personal and professional lives of several orchestra members, and includes an extensive interview with Maestro Abbado himself.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_I1R0yYEg
5PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Helmut Failoni and Francesco Merini • 2014 • Italy • 59 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Francesco Merini (Mammut Film)
This documentary film follows the 2012-2013 European tour of The Mozart Orchestra. The orchestra, founded in 2004 in Bologna, Italy by Maestro Claudio Abbado, brings together an international group of some of the best performers in the world, both early career and established classical musicians. Through the use of concert footage and interviews, the film gives a glimpse into the personal and professional lives of several orchestra members, and includes an extensive interview with Maestro Abbado himself.
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw_I1R0yYEg
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El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil's Backbone)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Guillermo Del Toro • 2001 • Spain/Mexico • 106 min • language: Spanish with English subtitles
**Introduction by Daniel Chavez (UNH)
Set in a remote orphanage run by anti-Franco loyalists in 1939, as the Spanish Civil War is coming to an end, the film blends gothic horror, murder mystery and period drama to create a political allegory. The protagonist, a young boy named Carlos, gradually discovers that the orphanage is haunted by the ghost of another young boy who died there, in what Bravo TV has ranked as #61 in the top 100 scariest movies of all time.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/el-espinazo-del-diablo/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj_QUV8HZp4
Remastered 4k edition under the supervision of STUDIOCANAL.
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Guillermo Del Toro • 2001 • Spain/Mexico • 106 min • language: Spanish with English subtitles
**Introduction by Daniel Chavez (UNH)
Set in a remote orphanage run by anti-Franco loyalists in 1939, as the Spanish Civil War is coming to an end, the film blends gothic horror, murder mystery and period drama to create a political allegory. The protagonist, a young boy named Carlos, gradually discovers that the orphanage is haunted by the ghost of another young boy who died there, in what Bravo TV has ranked as #61 in the top 100 scariest movies of all time.
https://ilcinemaritrovato.it/en/film/el-espinazo-del-diablo/
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qj_QUV8HZp4
Remastered 4k edition under the supervision of STUDIOCANAL.
Thursday, April 2nd
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Deserto Rosso (Red Desert)
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Michelangelo Antonioni • 1964 • Italy • 117 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Anna Rockwell (UNH)
In his first color film, Michelangelo Antonioni transforms the industrial landscapes of Northern Italy into a haunting, atmospheric, psychological terrain. Featuring a mesmerizing performance by the iconic Monica Vitti, Red Desert explores the isolation and neurosis felt by a woman unable to adapt to the rapidly mechanizing world surrounding her husband’s petrochemical plant. Through extraordinary color and composition, Antonioni articulates the anxieties and alienation that lie at the heart of our modern existence. With a screenplay by Tonino Guerra, a frequent collaborator of Antonioni and Federico Fellini, and an imaginative score by Giovanni Fusco.
https://www.criterion.com/films/1454-red-desert
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uVPQG01JHk
4K digital restoration courtesy CSC-Cineteca Nazionale and Istituto Luce Cinecittà with the cooperation of RTI-Mediaset.
4PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Michelangelo Antonioni • 1964 • Italy • 117 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Anna Rockwell (UNH)
In his first color film, Michelangelo Antonioni transforms the industrial landscapes of Northern Italy into a haunting, atmospheric, psychological terrain. Featuring a mesmerizing performance by the iconic Monica Vitti, Red Desert explores the isolation and neurosis felt by a woman unable to adapt to the rapidly mechanizing world surrounding her husband’s petrochemical plant. Through extraordinary color and composition, Antonioni articulates the anxieties and alienation that lie at the heart of our modern existence. With a screenplay by Tonino Guerra, a frequent collaborator of Antonioni and Federico Fellini, and an imaginative score by Giovanni Fusco.
https://www.criterion.com/films/1454-red-desert
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uVPQG01JHk
4K digital restoration courtesy CSC-Cineteca Nazionale and Istituto Luce Cinecittà with the cooperation of RTI-Mediaset.
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Ercole al centro della Terra (Hercules in the Haunted World)
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Mario Bava • 1961 • Italy • 93 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Ann Zimo (UNH)
A campy yet beautifully shot blend of the “sword and sandal” and horror genres, this film was Bava’s second feature film after Black Sunday (which screened to great acclaim at last year’s Cinema Ritrovato NH). Bava’s artistry is on full display as he makes atmospheric sets out of budget materials. English bodybuilder Reg Park stars as Hercules (a role he will reprise several more times) and a creepy Christopher Lee as his underworld Zombie-making nemesis.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3625
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zFEt2i0ATQ&t=41s
2k restoration from the original camera negative under the supervision of Kino Lorber
7PM - Memorial Union Building, Theater 2
Mario Bava • 1961 • Italy • 93 min • language: Italian with English subtitles
**Introduction by Ann Zimo (UNH)
A campy yet beautifully shot blend of the “sword and sandal” and horror genres, this film was Bava’s second feature film after Black Sunday (which screened to great acclaim at last year’s Cinema Ritrovato NH). Bava’s artistry is on full display as he makes atmospheric sets out of budget materials. English bodybuilder Reg Park stars as Hercules (a role he will reprise several more times) and a creepy Christopher Lee as his underworld Zombie-making nemesis.
https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/3625
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zFEt2i0ATQ&t=41s
2k restoration from the original camera negative under the supervision of Kino Lorber