Brazilian CinemaCinemaca presents restored exhibitions from Latin America; Check out programming the 26 works recently restored by Cinematheque and other AL, are titles from Brazil, Argentina, Cuba, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Colombopor Redation

February 12 to 23, 2025, the Brazilian Cinematheque presents the show Restored from Latin Americawith a selection 26 works, including feature films and short films. They are films recently restored by Cinemateca itself and other preservation institutions in Latin America.

The show aims to reinforce the importance of the preservation and restoration work of Latin American institutions. The selection also seeks to offer an overview of the richness and diversity of cinema on our continent. For this purpose, some sessions will feature comparative clips of “before and after” the restoration processes and comments of the technical teams of Brazilian Cinemateca.

The Brazilian Cinemateca audience will have the opportunity to watch a different program, consisting of feature films and short films, fictions and documentaries, including unpublished records of the continent, classic and pioneer films in Latin America.

The program opens on February 12, at 20h, with a double session with the short Genésio Apuros (1940, South America Film) and the feature Meteorango Kid (1969, André Luiz Oliveira), both restored by the Brazilian Cinemateca Image and Sound Laboratory.

The sessions blend works from different countries and collections, from thematic and aesthetic approaches. In reunited pioneers, it is highlighted the work that allowed the discovery of rare materials of Latin American works from the beginning of the last century.

In the work In search of Maria (Luis Ospina, Jorge Nieto, Colombia, 1985), the first Colombian feature film, made in 1922, is rescued from the only four surviving planes. The second movie of the session, Luis Pardo (Enrique Cornejo Villanueva, Peru, 1927), is considered the oldest Peruvian fiction feature that has undergone a restoration process.

Also compose the programming classic works such as Underdevelopment Memories (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Cuba, 1968)-A record of the socialist revolution and considered one of the most important Latin American films ever made.

In turn, Earth Prisoners (MARIO SOFFICA, Argentina, 1939) creates a rich and honest portrait of class conflict from the adaptation of Uruguayan tales Horacio Quiroga. In addition to its cinematic achievements, the film is also an important record of the Guarani dialect, which is now practically lost.

In addition to the sessions, the program features a lecture, on February 20, about the processes of preserving and restoring film, with the team of the Brazilian Cinemateca Image and Sound Laboratory. The event will have Libras interpreter and will be broadcast live on the institution’s channel on YouTube.

A catalog will also be available online on the Brazilian Cinemateca website. The schedule is free and tickets are distributed one hour before each session.

Film curator also includes seven cinemateca -restored works, resulting from specific actions, with features of incentive laws, independent initiatives or through international partnerships, such as Stanford University Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

The programming of international works was supported by different partner organizations that are part of the International Federation of Film Files (FIAF) and the Latin American coordinator of moving image files (CLAIM), including the Cinemateca de Bogota, Cineteca de Bologna, the Chilean National Cineteca, the La Pontificia Filmoteca Universidad Católica del Peru, the La Universidad Autonoma of Mexico, the Cuban del Arte and Cinematographic Industry Institute, the Mexican Institute of Cinematographic, the Museo Del Pablo Ducrós Hicken , World Film Foundation and the British Film Institute.