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To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation
January 09, 2025 – January 30, 2025
The Museum of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art announces To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, the latest edition of the annual festival dedicated to celebrating newly preserved and restored films from archives, studios, distributors, foundations, and independent filmmakers from around the world. Running from January 9 to January 30, 2025, this year’s festival showcases over 25 feature films and shorts programs in newly preserved or restored versions.
This year’s program will open and close with the restoration premieres of two major silent films preserved in MoMA’s archives: Frank Borzage’s transcendent romance 7th Heaven (1927), in a new upgrade from MoMA’s previous restoration, and Charles Chaplin’s World War I comedy Shoulder Arms, in a reconstruction of the seldom-seen original 1918 version, presented here as a work-in-progress.
More information and screening schedule can be found here.
Film at MoMA is made possible by CHANEL.
Additional support is provided by the Annual Film Fund. Leadership support for the Annual Film Fund is provided by Debra and Leon D. Black, with major funding from The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), and The Young Patrons Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
Press Kit
Images
7th Heaven. 1927. USA. Directed by Frank Borzage. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive
Dutchman. 1966. UK/USA. Directed by Anthony Harvey. Courtesy Continental Distributing/Photofest [Shown from left: Shirley Knight, Al Freeman Jr.] / Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art Stills Archive
Elijah Pierce: Woodcarver. 1974. USA. Directed by Carolyn Jones. Courtesy The Ohio State University Archives
The Post Telegrapher. 1912. USA. Directed by Francis Ford and Thomas Ince. Courtesy Undercrank Productions
The Craving. 1918. USA. Directed by Francis Ford. Courtesy Undercrank Productions
Peg o’ the Mounted. 1924. USA. Directed by Alfred J. Goulding. Courtesy San Francisco Film Preserve
Raskolnikow. 1923. Germany. Directed by Robert Wiene. Courtesy Filmmuseum München
The Wages of Sin. 1938. USA. Directed by Herman E. Webber. Courtesy UCLA Film and Television Archive
Adventures of Casanova. 1948. USA. Directed by Roberto Gavaldón. Courtesy UCLA Film & Television Archive
After the Earthquake (Después del Terremoto). 1979. USA. Directed by Lourdes Portillo and Nina Serrano. Courtesy Pacific Film Archive
Broadway. 1929. USA. Directed by Paul Fejos. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive
Dear Wife (Mia Luang). 1978. Thailand. Directed by Vichit Kounavudhi. Courtesy Thai Film Archive (Public Organization)
Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By (Et j’aime à la fureur). 2021. France. Written and directed by André Bonzel. Courtesy the filmmaker
Calamity (Kalamita). 1982. Czechoslovakia. Directed by Vĕra Chytilová. Courtesy Národní filmový archiv, Prague
María Candelaria. 1943. Mexico. Directed by Emilio Fernández. Courtesy Filmoteca UNAM
The Mirage (Maya Miriga). 1984. India. Directed by Nirad N. Mohapatra. Courtesy Film Heritage Foundation
The Scratchman. 1980. USA. Directed by Heather McAdams. Courtesy Chicago Film Society
A Real Woman (Mulher de Verdade). 1952. Brazil. Directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. Courtesy Cinemateca Brasileira
Stars in Broad Daylight (Nujim An-Nahar). 1988. Syria. Directed by Ossama Mohamed. Courtesy Cineteca di Bologna
Rosaura at 10 O’Clock (Rosaura a las 10). 1958. Argentina. Directed by Mario Soffici. Courtesy Argentina Solo Film
Shoulder Arms. 1918. USA. Directed by Charles Chaplin. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive