The wait is finally over! Following yesterday’s launch of the full programme for the 39th edition of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival, we invite all Festival Pass holders to get ready to reserve their seats. Starting this afternoon - Wednesday, 11th June, at 4pm (GMT+1) - you’ll be able to book events scheduled between the 21st and 24th of June.

This year Il Cinema Ritrovato wants to get you more involved!

With the Il Cinema Ritrovato Web App (available to download for free) you will be able to browse the full programme and select the events of your choosing and create a personal calendar. The App will also notify of any changes to the programme and useful alerts!

Join us in Bologna from 21-29 June!

The screen is up, the chairs are set, the projector’s ready, now all we need is you! Here are a few key dates to mark in your calendar:

With summer approaching, it's time for the Big Screen of Piazza Maggiore to come back! It will dominate the centre of Bologna until the middle of August, with all the evening screenings of Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival and Sotto le stelle del cinema.

On Thursday 5 June, Ehsan Khoshbakht will be a guest of the San Francisco Film Preserve. During the meeting Online with SFPP, the co-director of the Il Cinema Ritrovato festival will talk about Lewis Milestone's exceptional body of work, including the film The Garden of Eden, recently restored by SFFP. Khoshbakht is the curator of the section Lewis Milestone: Of Men and Wars.

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Da sabato 21 giugno a domenica 29 giugno 2025 si svolgerà a Bologna la XXXIX edizione del Festival Il Cinema Ritrovato, nell’ambito di Sotto le Stelle del Cinema. Il Cinema Ritrovato rinnova l'appuntamento per i cinefili di tutto il mondo: nove giorni di programmazione dalla mattina alla sera, nelle tante sale cinematografiche disseminate per tutto il centro storico di Bologna. La sera si aggiunge lo splendido schermo di Piazza Maggiore.

The 22nd edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato – Blu-ray & DVD Awards is promoted by Cineteca di Bologna in the framework of Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival. It’s a competition that — in line with the festival spirit — celebrates old movies, restorations and rediscovers, in their home video formats. The competition is open to all films released in Blu-Ray/DVD and will take place during the 39th edition of the festival.

The competition is open to DVDs and Blu-rays released between February 2024 and March 2025 of critically acclaimed films made before 1995 (30 years ago). You can enter the competition by submitting up to 5 titles of your latest releases. Your DVDs and Blu-rays must reach Bologna no later than March 21st, 2025.

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FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission Workshop: "Film-Related Materials in Archives - From Acquisition to Access" 20-21 June 2025 Bologna (MAMbo at the Cineteca di Bologna) Registrations will open on 1 April 2025

Presentation of the course

Photos, posters, press clippings, 3D objects, sheet music and many other materials are collected, catalogued, digitised and made accessible in and by filmarchives. These diverse documents are commonly grouped under the term “film-related materials”. However, each of these types of materials requires a completely different approach in terms of collection, digitization, and also cataloguing, and most of all, requires specialised and trained archivists. In addition, these departments within the film institutions are usually staffed with fewer people than the film departments.

"La 38e édition du plus grand festival de films restaurés a eu lieu dans une Bologne particulièrement fraîche et humide, loin des torpeurs estivales qui la caractérisent : un climat parfait pour redécouvrir des oeuvres suédoises et japonaises, mais aussi pour se perdre dans les méandres des Alpes post‑nazies.

"The first time I saw Napoléon vu par Abel Gance (1927) was on a boxy old television via a VHS tape. Even then, the extravagance of Gance’s ambition to put on-screen the surging tides of history and the flicker of thought in a human eye, all through what the director called “the music of light,” set a high-water mark for my idea of what cinema can be. I had yearned ever since to see it again, while following the never-ending saga of restorations and disputed screenings of the mangled epic (now clocking in at 562 minutes).