With over 50 events and screenings, including 15 brand-new 4K film restorations showing alongside contemporary classics, film-on-film rarities and curiosities from around the globe, Cinema Rediscovered 2024 is shaping up to be our most thrilling yet.

From Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Film Critics’ Workshop, The Sapphic Gaze wlw by Amy Jensen is a video essay commission in response to the 7th edition of the festival.

From Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Film Critics’ Workshop, The Lonely Underground by Cameron Mumford is a video essay commission in response to the 7th edition of the festival.

From Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Film Critics’ Workshop, Challenging the Canon by Niall Glynn is a video essay commission in response to the 7th edition of the festival.

From Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Film Critics’ Workshop, It takes time to build castles by Steph Francis-Shanahan is a video essay commission in response to the 7th edition of the festival.

From Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Film Critics’ Workshop, half reflection: Windows and Mirrors on Film by Jacob Rose is a video essay commission in response to the 7th edition of the festival.

From Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Film Critics’ Workshop, Listening to Variety by Theo Rollason is a video essay commission in response to the 7th edition of the festival.

From Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Film Critics’ Workshop, “there are other ways of seeing (on GOD... i brought you in and i'll take you back out bbz)” by cecile emeke is a video essay commission in response to the 7th edition of the festival.

From Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Film Critics’ Workshop, Bushman (Reassembled) by Kwame Phillips is a video essay commission in response to the 7th edition of the festival.

We are very excited to share this interview with film theorist and filmmaker Laura Mulvey! This conversation was recorded for our 7th edition of Cinema Rediscovered: Other Ways of Seeing, and first screened at the festivals opening event in July 2023.

Film critic and curator Fedor Tot examines the censorship link between the Soviet dramas of Ukrainian filmmaker Kira Muratova and films produced by the Hollywood blacklistees, playing at venues across the UK & Ireland as part of the Cinema Rediscovered touring strand – Look Who's Back: The Hollywood Renaissance and the Blacklist. This piece was originally published in the Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Tour 'pamphlet/book/thing', edited by Tara Judah.

Writer Ian Wang dives deep into the thematic links of Variety, Kamikaze Hearts and Salvation! from the Cinema Rediscovered Down & Dirty: American D.I.Y. Restored strand, currently touring to venues across the UK. This piece was originally published in the Cinema Rediscovered 2023 Tour 'pamphlet/book/thing', edited by Tara Judah. Illustration by Amber Phillips.

Guest writer Harriet Taylor from SWITCH offers a fresh take on Juliet Bashore's quasi-documentary Kamikaze Hearts, screening at Cinema Rediscovered 2023 on Thu 27 July and Sun 30 July.

Andy Willis (Professor of Film Studies at the University of Salford and Senior Visiting Curator at HOME in Manchester), curator of the Look Who's Back: The Hollywood Renaissance and the Blacklist strand at this year's Cinema Rediscovered festival, dives into the thinking behind the strand and the political context of this era of Hollywood filmmaking.

From guest writer Sean Wilson comes this exploration of some of the soundtrack highlights & musical motifs from this year's Cinema Rediscovered programme.

Check out the brand new trailer for Cinema Rediscovered 2023, created by our friends at Silk Factory