Restorations is a program of cinematic treasures, classics and curios, newly restored to their former glory – ready to be discovered or ripe for rediscovery.
Restorations

Blood
Now magnificently restored, Pedro Costa’s oneiric debut film declared the arrival of an essential new voice in world cinema.
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The Coolbaroo Club
Restored by the National Film and Sound Archive, this film recounts how a haven of Indigenous dance and activism arose from segregated postwar Perth.
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
From the Deep South to DC, civil rights pioneer and I Am Not Your Negro subject James Baldwin revisits key sites in the US fight for racial equality.
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Japanese Story
In this award-winning outback journey of discovery, now brilliantly restored, Toni Collette stars as a geologist at odds with a Japanese businessman.
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MIFF Ambassador Special Screening: The Bank 4K Restoration
MIFF Ambassador Robert Connolly presents a radiant 4K restoration of his debut feature: an entertaining, anti-capitalist caper of greed and deception.
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Millennium Mambo
A dazzling 4K restoration of Taiwanese auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien’s sensual 2001 tale of an adrift bar hostess at the turn of the millennium.
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The Munekata Sisters
In their quest to restore long-lost romance, two sisters learn that the course of true love never runs smoothly.
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Return to Reason
Man Ray’s classic shorts are reimagined for their 100th anniversary alongside an ecstatic soundtrack from SQÜRL members Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan.
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Werckmeister Harmonies
In this gorgeous new 4K restoration, Hungarian slow-cinema master Béla Tarr finds metaphysical horror in a nascent revolution.
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With Love to the Person Next to Me
A brooding taxi driver becomes obsessed with the lives of his passengers in Brian McKenzie’s forgotten Melbourne gem, now lovingly restored.
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