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This restoration is part of the African Film Heritage Project, an initiative created by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, the Pan African Federation of Filmmakers and UNESCO—in collaboration with Cineteca di Bologna—to help locate, restore, and disseminate African cinema.
The World Cinema Project (WCP), formerly World Cinema Foundation, is a non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and restoration of neglected world cinema, founded by Martin Scorsese.
English TitleYearDirectorCountry Of Origin1954Indonesia1978Morocco1970Senegal1966Senegal & FranceFILMMAKERS WITHOUT BORDERS (FWB) supports independent filmmakers around the world via grants and other funding initiatives. Supported projects include narrative films, documentary films, and new media projects that align with themes of social justice, empowerment, and cultural exchange.
- World Cinema Project No. 1
- World Cinema Project No. 2
- World Cinema Project No. 3
- The World Cinema Project No. 4
This first collection from The World Cinema Project is composed of six films from Senegal, Turkey, Mexico, Bangladesh/India, Morocco, and South Korea. Touki Bouki, released in 1973 and directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty, is a Senegalese film about two lovers, Anta and Mory, who leave Senegal to pursue a better life in France. The WCP restored this Af...
Project No. 2 of the WCP takes us to the Philippines, Thailand, the Soviet Union, Brazil, Turkey, and Taiwan. This collection's list of films evokes themes of crime, revenge, and melancholy. One of the most notable works in this collection is the experimental film, Mysterious Objects at Noon. Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul "brought an appetite...
The Project's third collection restored films from Cuba, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Iran, and Mauritania and contains themes such as "revolution, identity, agency, forgiveness, and exclusion." According to the Criterion Collection, Lucía is "a formally dazzling landmark of Cuban cinema" that "recounts the history of a changing country through the e...
The most recently released collection of films from Scorsese's World Cinema Project includes restorations of films from Angola, Argentina, Iran, Cameroon, Hungary, and India. Prisoneros de la tierra was released in 1939 and directed by Mario Soffici. In this film, "desperate men are entrapped into indentured labor on a yerba maté plantation under ...
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Jan 4, 2024 · Screen International’s editorial team has selected some of the topics that will impact the international film sector this year. See here for our UK and North American industry talking...
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Oct 23, 2020 · In exploring transnational cinema activities in the form of transnational remakes, co-productions, cross-contamination of genres, diasporic and (post)colonial cinemas, as well as contemporary documentary film festivals, this issue puts the spotlight on critical trends in transnational cinemas occurring beyond the Western spheres of influences.
