Foreword

The Cinephiles’ Heaven

The Gates of Heaven are about to open for cinema lovers. In the words of its artistic director Peter von Bagh, Il Cinema Ritrovato is cinephiles’ pure heaven! A marvellous time and space machine launched 28 eight years ago, travelling between Bologna and the rest of the world, taking film buffs on a wonderful journey of staggering aesthetic experiences, historical spectacles, linguistic innovations, untamed classicism, black and white, colour and hand coloured films, sound or silent and accompanied live by the best musicians, film print as well as digital projections.
The XXVIII edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato will take place from June 28th to July 5th. 360 films from 1895 till today (all with English subtitles), 5 theatres from dawn till dusk, as well as open air evening screenings in Bologna’s wonderful main square, Piazza Maggiore, and in Cineteca’s courtyard, Piazzetta Pasolini. 8 fulfilling and memorable days to dive into the pleasure of unique screenings, to discover the best prints and digital restorations from the most important film archives and institutions all over the world, to meet the main exponents of film history as well as current cinema.
This year the festival will be preceded (from June 25th to 28th) by The Birth of the Tramp Celebration organised in collaboration with Association Chaplin/Roy Export Company. A 3 day event and an international conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Charlie Chaplin’s iconic character.