Discover the highlights in tomorrow’s programme!

Recovered and Restored
Following the Recovered and Restored section step by step means undertaking an epic journey through different languages, cultures and cinemas, which speak to each other and to us. It means going from the devastated Los Angeles of Killer of Sheep, a fictional portrait of a working class African-American family (also the focus of a restoration meeting on Tuesday 24 June), to the 17th-century China of The Arch, the debut work by Shu Shuen Tang, the first Hong Kongese director to gain international recognition. Then a trip around Europe, from the Germany of the family saga Die Buddenbrooks to the Nazi-occupied France – entirely reconstructed in Hollywood – of Till We Meet Again, and to the rice fields of Vercelli in Riso amaro. Pratello Pop also takes us back to Italy: to the Seventies of the disconcerting …hanno cambiato faccia and “carosello” advertisements for Crodino, and to the exaggerated Eighties of the cult Arrapaho, “the ugliest film in the history of Italian cinema”, introduced by director Ciro Ippolito.

Auditorium DAMSLab –2.30pm, 4.15pm and 6.15pm

Documents and Documentaries
The day’s documentaries shine a spotlight on the history of cinema. It gets underway with Franco & Hollywood, which explores how Francoist Spain used Hollywood to gain international credibility, followed by the stories of two cinema theatres that changed the destinies of their audiences: Le Muranów de Varsovie and The New Yorker Theater: A Talbot Legacy. Alongside documentaries about cinema, we also have a programme of little gems, which includes Il pianto delle zitelle – considered the first example of neorealist cinema by Antonioni – and Le Retour, which tells the story of the difficult journey home of French prisoners freed from concentration camps in 1945.

Cinema Modernissimo – 6pm

Thierry Frémaux presents Lumière, l’aventure continue!
Cannes’ director will be the protagonist of a cinema lesson on Tuesday 24
Thierry Frémaux returns to the origins of cinema with a new film about the inventors of the cinématographe, Lumière, l’aventure continue!, which he will introduce at Cinema Modernissimo. “It is a world that comes to life in front of the first spectators, a world in which everything is worthy of being shot” (Paolo Mereghetti). The celebrated director of the Cannes Film Festival will also be the guest at an unmissable Cinema Lesson on Tuesday 24 June, in conversation with Gian Luca Farinelli.

Auditorium DAMSLab – 12pm

The raconteur, or the art of boniment
Fasten your seatbelt in the time machine, because this year Il Cinema Ritrovato is taking us on a journey to discover a figure about whom very little is known today, but who was characteristic of early cinema: the raconteur. Somewhere between a storyteller and a lecturer, they helped to bring scenes to life and elucidate certain fragments or stories that were unclear in the absence of words. Spectators at the festival will be able to travel back a century in time and experience the magic of the past thanks to Julie Linquette, a professional raconteur who, in addition to accompanying some of the screenings of the 1905 section, will be the protagonist of an essential Cinema Lesson at Auditorium DAMSLab, in conversation with Émilie Cauquy.

Piazzetta Pasolini – 7pm

Not just books… under the stars: La cinefilia. Invenzione di uno sguardo, storia di una cultura 1944-68
Il Cinema Ritrovato is more than films! Alongside the screenings and meetings with filmmakers, the festival reserves space for the most interesting publications about cinema: in the evocative setting of Piazzetta Pasolini, Antoine de Baeque’s La cinefilia. Invenzione di uno sguardo, storia di una cultura 1944-68 (CUE Press, 2025) will be presented by Roy Menarini and Emiliano Morreale, who also curated the volume. The book paints portraits of the French nouvelle vague directors who, from the Liberation until 1968, cultivated a passion for cinema in Paris, founding magazines and film clubs, promoting discussion and, at times, arguing. The author of this heart-felt reconstruction, Antoine de Baeque, is a cinema critic and historian, and was the director of “Cahiers du cinema”.

Sala Mastroianni – 9am, 11.15am and 6.30pm

Mutiflix: Les Misérables and other films from A Hundred Years Ago
An unmissable event for all serial addicts at the festival: from Monday 23 (until Thursday 26), Sala Mastroianni will open its daily programme with one of the four episodes of Henri Fescourt’s monumental 1925-26 adaptation of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables (all with live musical accompaniment from Neil Brand on piano). However, this is but the first of our A Hundred Years Ago appointments kicking off the week: there are also films by Walther Ruttmann and Viking Eggeling, originally presented at the legendary Berlin matinée “Der absolute Film”; there is Le Voyage imaginaire, a surreal comedy in which – as Michel Gondry writes in our catalogue – “the narration is geometric, modern and clever, foreshadowing the virtuoso and innovative director René Clair was to become”; and there is Eisenstein’s masterpiece Bronenosec Potëmkin, with the Odessa steps sequence, which became the most famous example of editing in the history of cinema.

Cinema Arlecchino, Cinema Jolly – 9.30pm  | Piazza Maggiore – 9.45pm | Cinema Modernissimo, Piazzetta Pier Paolo Pasolini – 10pm | Cinema Europa – 10.15pm

Into the Night
An evening for all tastes and ages. In Piazzetta Pasolini, the hands of time are going back one hundred and twenty years: we will be turning the cranck of one of the oldest surviving examples of a Stahlprojektor Imperator, a projector with arc light with which we will be screening some gems of early cinema from the Goldstaub-Fund collection. In Piazza Maggiore, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Miloš Forman’s film of authentic rebellion starring an unforgettable Jack Nicholson, will illuminate the big screen. But there will also be: Arch of Triumph, directed by Lewis Milestone, an epic about a refugee in Paris in 1938, based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque; Satyajit Ray’s Aranyer Din Ratri, a light-hearted film about the complexities of post-colonial urban India; Amores perros, the intense and frenetic debut work by Alejandro González Iñárritu; and the restored version of Gerard Damiano’s The Story of Joanna, which returns the film to its original form as intended by the director, as desired by his children (who will also be present at the screening) to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film.