The archive

Films

Our restorations span six decades of Central and Eastern European filmmaking. Each film has been selected for its formal rigour, its historical significance, or both. We work directly with national archives and surviving collaborators wherever possible.

6
Restored titles
5
Countries
1969
Earliest film
2018
Latest film
01
1974

The Salt Road

Ion Popescu-Gopo / Romania, 1974 / 103 min

A salt merchant navigates the Carpathian mountain pass during the final years of Ottoman rule, carrying encoded messages between partisan villages. Shot entirely on location in natural light over two winters, this is Popescu-Gopo's most formally rigorous work, built around silences rather than dialogue.

Restored
DramaHistorical
02
1983

Chimney Boys

Feliks Falk / Poland, 1983 / 89 min

Three chimney sweeps navigate the bureaucratic labyrinth of late-Communist Warsaw in this deadpan masterwork from Falk, a key figure in the Cinema of Moral Anxiety movement. The film was shelved by state censors for three years following production.

Restored
DramaSocial realism
03
1969

Threshold

Evald Schorm / Czechoslovakia, 1969 / 94 min

A factory engineer begins questioning everything around him. Shot three months before the Soviet invasion, Schorm's final completed feature carries a weight he could not have anticipated. Widely considered the last film of the Czech New Wave.

Restored
DramaCzech New Wave
04
2001

The Inheritance of Rain

Ildiko Enyedi / Hungary, 2001 / 118 min

A woman inherits her grandmother's farmhouse and discovers a room that appears to exist at a slight temporal offset. Enyedi's most personal film and her most formally adventurous, shot on 16mm and blown up to 35mm for theatrical release.

DramaMagic realism
05
2018

Cassandra Protocol

Christian Petzold / Germany, 2018 / 127 min

A climate researcher in Hamburg begins receiving model output that predicts events too specifically to be coincidence. Shot entirely on reversal film stock to achieve a quality of light that digital cannot replicate. Co-production with ARTE France.

DramaThriller
06
1978

Silent Border

Dušan Makavejev / Yugoslavia, 1978 / 97 min

A Yugoslav border guard near the Albanian frontier develops a weekly routine with a shepherd who crosses without speaking. Makavejev at his most restrained. The film was produced during Makavejev's exile from Yugoslavia and never screened there during his lifetime.

Restored
DramaPolitical