Restorations

Now magnificently restored, Pedro Costa’s oneiric debut film declared the arrival of an essential new voice in world cinema.

Restored by the National Film and Sound Archive, this film recounts how a haven of Indigenous dance and activism arose from segregated postwar Perth.

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.

In this award-winning outback journey of discovery, now brilliantly restored, Toni Collette stars as a geologist at odds with a Japanese businessman.

MIFF Ambassador Robert Connolly presents a radiant 4K restoration of his debut feature: an entertaining, anti-capitalist caper of greed and deception.

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.

In their quest to restore long-lost romance, two sisters learn that the course of true love never runs smoothly.

Man Ray’s classic shorts are reimagined for their 100th anniversary alongside an ecstatic soundtrack from SQÜRL members Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan.

In this gorgeous new 4K restoration, Hungarian slow-cinema master Béla Tarr finds metaphysical horror in a nascent revolution.

A brooding taxi driver becomes obsessed with the lives of his passengers in Brian McKenzie’s forgotten Melbourne gem, now lovingly restored.