2020-2021 Contents Foreword............................................................................................................................................... 3 Introduction.......................................................................................................................................... 5 Participating institutions.................................................................................................................... 7 Films and compilation programmes................................................................................................ 9 Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam | Een ochtend van zes weken.................................................. 11 Ταινιοθήκη της Ελλάδος / Greek Film Archive, Athens | Psarades kai psaremata, Koinoniki sapila.................................................................................................................................. 13 Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona | La piel quemada.............................................................. 15 Arhiv Jugoslovenske kinoteke / Jugoslav Film Archive, Belgrade | Grešnica bez greha... 17 Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern | Reise durch die Schweiz........................................................... 19 Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna | Comizi d’amore.................................................................... 21 Cinémathèque royale de Belgique / Koninklijk Belgisch Filmarchief, Brussels | De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen........................................................................................................... 23 Nemzeti Filmintézet Magyarország – Filmarchívum / National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive, Budapest | Habfürdő............................................................................................. 25 Irish Film Institute, Dublin | She Didn’t Say No!........................................................................... 27 DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, Frankfurt | Der Kampf ums Matterhorn.... 29 Cinémathèque Suisse, Lausanne | Derborence.......................................................................... 31 Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, Lisbon | Maria do Mar................................. 33 Slovenska kinoteka / Slovenian Cinematheque, Ljubljana | Seven Slovenian Shorts 1946-1984......................................................................................................................................... 35 Cinemateket / The Norwegian Film Institute, Oslo | Ung flukt................................................. 37 La Cinémathèque française, Paris | Cycle George Méliès 2020-2021.................................... 39 Národní filmový archiv, Prague...................................................................................................... 41 Milenky starého kriminálníka................................................................................................... 41 Bílý ráj.......................................................................................................................................... 42 Buď připraven!............................................................................................................................ 43 Filmy Jana Kříženeckého......................................................................................................... 44 Cikáni........................................................................................................................................... 45 Ukřižovaná.................................................................................................................................. 46 Кинотека на Република Северна Македонија / Cinematheque of the Republic of North Macedonia, Skopje | Frosina, Mirno Leto.......................................................................... 47 Българска национална филмотека / Bulgarian National Film Archive, Sofia | Summer Daydream: A Selection of Vintage Bulgarian Short Films......................................... 49 Arkivi Qendror Shtetëror i Filmit (AQSHF) / Albanian National Film Archive, Tirana | Vdekja e kalit....................................................................................................................................... 51 Museo Nazionale del Cinema, Turin | La moglie di Claudio..................................................... 53 Filmoteca Valenciana – Institut Valencià de Cultura, Valencia | Sanz y el secreto de su arte....................................................................................................................................................... 55 Hrvatski državni arhiv – Hrvatska kinoteka / Croatian state archive – Croatian cinematheque, Zagreb | Tko pjeva zlo ne misli............................................................................ 57 Programme catalogue Index (Film titles, Directors).............................................................................................................. 59 Edited by Paulina Reizi (Eye Filmmuseum) ACE members....................................................................................................................................... 61 Amsterdam, October 2020 Credits and acknowledgements....................................................................................................... 62 Published by ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes 2 Foreword It seems like a century ago at the Cannes film culture — past, present and future. We experience shared across Europe, even including the European community of Film Festival in 2019, when a group of cannot wait. when attending a local event.” film archives and cinematheques. We directors* of European cinematheques are therefore proud to present, again met with Lucia Recalde, Head of Unit for Then, the good. In the recent past, the Among the classic films screened during with support of the Creative Europe Creative Europe MEDIA at the European European Commission has supported the season were some of the best- programme, the second edition of A Commission. We discussed the state of several initiatives for the preservation known titles in world cinema, including Season of Classic Films: a series of affairs of our common film heritage. We and the exhibition of film heritage. In Fritz Lang’s Metropolis (1927), Francois free screenings planned across Europe talked about the need for support for the the summer of 2019, the first edition of Truffaut’s The 400 blows (1959), and between December 2020 until June restoration and digitisation of film heritage, A Season of Classic Films took place: Cinema Paradiso (1988) by Giuseppe 2021 to raise awareness of the work education and training, and the need for European film classics were screened Tornatore. The iconic venues hosting the of European national and regional film greater visibility. Things have changed in some of Europe’s most iconic cultural screenings included Aristotelous Square archives, especially among young adults. drastically since then. For the good and heritage venues. Classic films from in Thessaloniki, Greece, Kilkenny Castle With 22 participating institutions, this the bad. Not for the ugly. across the EU were screened free of in Ireland, and the Piazza Maggiore in initiative particularly aims to support the charge in a wide variety of venues in Bologna, Italy. reopening of European film archives, all First, the bad. As I am writing this 13 EU countries – from small towns affected by the COVID-19 crisis. foreword, COVID-19 is still affecting us all, to capital cities – highlighting Europe’s Moreover, in 2019 the European including the international community of rich and diverse cultural heritage. At the Commission funded several restoration We cannot wait to reopen our film archives and cinematheques. Many launch of the first screening event, Tibor and digitisation projects, such as cinematheques to celebrate film culture of us have restricted or no access to our Navracsics, Commissioner for Education, the digitisation of 50 films from the in all its rich and endless diversity, from public premises. Some film theatres are Culture, Youth and Sport at that time, said: Mutoscope and Biograph Collection all over Europe, from all times, for a wide closed and many are in financial trouble. “European cultural heritage, including our preserved in the archives of the British audience, now and in the future. Film productions have stopped or been great film classics, should be accessible Film Institute and Eye Filmmuseum. Most hindered, film professionals are losing their to everyone. I am pleased to see that the of these unique films were made in Europe Happy return to cinema! jobs or facing bankruptcy. We need to be Season of Classic Films makes it possible between 1897 and 1902 and feature rare unified in order to safeguard European for everyone interested to be part of an images from Venice, Berlin, Amsterdam Sandra den Hamer and London from 120 years ago. President of ACE and director of Eye Filmmuseum * Gian Luca Farinelli (Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna), Rainer Rother (Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen), Frédéric Maire (Cinémathèque suisse – FIAF President), György Ráduly (Hungarian National Film Archive) Cross-border cooperation has always and Sandra den Hamer (Eye Filmmuseum – ACE President) been and still is at the heart of film culture 3 4 Introduction This publication presents the film titles films that cover the period from 1896 to both films will be recorded and become European cinematheques