38TH EDITION

IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2024

38th EDITION

A FESTIVAL FOR ALL 

Let’s start with the numbers. They give an idea of the extent to which Il Cinema Ritrovato constitutes an exception among the panorama of festivals and cultural events. The 2024 edition will last for 9 days but there will be 20 days of evening screenings in Piazza Maggiore. Between features, shorts and scopitones, we will present 480 films produced in 35 countries and sourced from more than 140 archives and lenders. This is a colossal effort, made possible by 4 directors and 12 curators responsible for the 16 different sections that comprise the programme, plus a team of 81 professionals from the Cineteca and the Modernissimo, who work all year long, 110 collaborators and more than 300 volunteers who contribute in the months leading up to the festival. Last year we welcomed more than 5,000 pass holders from 51 different countries and over 12,000 spectators enjoyed 280 individual screenings. This year, with the addition of the Modernissimo, we expect even more amazing numbers. Are we exaggerating? Not at all. We know the programme and we know that cinephiles will come from around the world to bask in the beauty of the seventh art and of the recovered cinema.

Lessons in cinema

about the festival 2024

THE TIME MACHINE

  • Century of Cinema: 1904
  • A Hundred Years Ago: 1924
  • Delphine Seyrig, Just Another Sorceress
  • Documents and Documentaries

THE SPACE MACHINE

  • Undercurrents of Modernity: The Cinema of Kozaburo Yoshimura
  • Cinemalibero
  • Gustaf Molander – The Actresses’ Director
  • Dark Heimat
  • Parajanov 1954-1966: A Ukrainian Rhapsody

THE CINEPHILES’ HEAVEN

  • Recovered and Restored
  • Marlene Dietrich – Cinema Disrupted
  • Journeys into Night: The World of Anatole Litvak
  • Pietro Germi: A Troublesome Witness
  • The Colours of Small Gauge Cinema
  • Il Cinema Ritrovato’s Colours 2024
  • Il Cinema Ritrovato Kids e Young

Wim Wenders, Damien Chazelle, Darren Aronofsky, Alexander Payne, Alice Rohrwacher, Marco Bellocchio, Sergio Castellitto, Costa-Gavras, Volker Schlöndorff, Thierry Frémaux, Nicolas Seydoux, Juho Kuosmanen, Stephanie Rothman, Mohammad Malas, Ossama Mohammed

  • IL CINEMA RITROVATO 2024 CATALOGO DEL FESTIVAL
  • LUCHINO VISCONTI. EPISTOLARIO (1920-1961) a cura di Caterina d’Amico de Carvalho e Alessandra Favino
  • ALBERT SAMAMA CHIKLI Fotografo, cineasta, navigatore a cura di Mariann Lewinsky

Best Box Set

PASOLINI 101 (The Criterion Collection) — Blu-ray Box Set

Best Special Features

FOOLISH WIVES (Flicker Alley) — Blu-ray + DVD   

Best Rediscovery of a Forgotten Film

LAUREL & HARDY: YEAR ONE (Flicker Alley) — Blu-ray

Best Single Film Release

THAMP (Second Run) — Blu-ray

Best Film (The Peter von Bagh Award)

AMERICAN TRILOGY — MICHAEL ROEMER (Les Films du Camélia): Nothing But a Man / The Plot Against Harry / Vengeance Is Mine — Blu-ray Box Set

PERSONAL CHOICES

  • Lorenzo Codelli
    ÉRASE UNA VEZ… (Divisa Red) — Blu-ray  
  • Pamela Hutchinson / Shivendra Singh Dungarpur
    CHANTAL AKERMAN MASTERPIECES, 1968-1978 (The Criterion Collection) — Blu-ray Box Set
  • Philippe Garnier
    RAYMOND GRIFFITH — THE SILK HAT COMEDIAN(Undercrank Productions): Paths to Paradise / You’d Be Surprised — Blu-ray
  • Miguel Marías
    SOUNDIES: THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION (Kino Lorber) — Blu-ray
  • Paolo Mereghetti
    DELPHINE SEYRIG BOX SET (ARTE Editions) — Blu-ray Box Set(ARTE Editions) — Blu-ray Box Set

Il cinema ritrovato 2024:
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