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“Only a strong awareness towards film heritage and the still unexplored areas of its history can enable a festival to position itself as a credible interlocutor towards cinema at a time when the moving image and audiovisual industries are going through a moment of historical transition,” Locarno artistic director Giona A. Restoration of the selected film will start in Autumn 2023 and the new print will premiere at the fest in 2024.Ĭinegrell previously partnered with Locarno on restorations of Canadian auteur Denis Côté’s 2007 experimental work “Nos vies privées” (“Our Private Lives”) and with Portugal’s Cinemateca Portuguesa on Manoel De Oliveira’s 1992 drama “O dia do Desepero.”

Berlin and Zurich-based film lab Cinegrell is offering a free full restoration service to the vintage work that will be selected by an unspecified jury of three international industry professionals, a statement said.