“For wherever the sun rises and sets, in the city’s turmoil or under the open sky on the farm, life is much the same: sometimes bitter, sometimes sweet.”
Sunrise, 1927

Announcing the spectacular new 4K restoration of F.W. Murnau’s masterpiece: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans.

A multiple winner at the first ever Academy Awards and enduringly ranked atop the Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time lists, this most treasured film is an honor to restore. For the first time in almost a century, audiences will be able to view Sunrise in a manner very closely resembling its original appearance. Despite the loss of the Sunrise negatives in a fire in the 1930s, we scoured archives around the world to identify and access the highest quality surviving materials to restore the film with as much fidelity as possible, and the results are exceptional!

While SFFP initiated this 35mm restoration and undertook the 4K digital restoration in-house, this immense project is a transnational collaboration based on original film materials preserved by the British Film Institute National Archive, Cinémathèque royale de Belgique, The Museum of Modern Art, Eye Filmmuseum, Národní Filmový Archiv (Prague), and George Eastman Museum. The film was beautifully graded at the L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory. None of this would have been possible without the outstanding support of Sunrise Foundation for Education and the Arts. Their generosity is astounding, and has been key to enabling this highly complex project’s completion.