Restorations

Restorations is a program of cinematic treasures, classics and curios, newly restored to their former glory – ready to be discovered or ripe for rediscovery.

Blood

Director Pedro Costa

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

The Coolbaroo Club

Director Roger Scholes

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

I Heard It Through the Grapevine

Directors Dick Fontaine , Pat Hartley

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.

Japanese Story

Director Sue Brooks

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

Millennium Mambo

Director Hou Hsiao-hsien

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.

The Munekata Sisters

Director Yasujirô Ozu

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

Return to Reason

Director Man Ray

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

Werckmeister Harmonies

Director Béla Tarr

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

With Love to the Person Next to Me

Director Brian McKenzie

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