(Inés Toharia, 2021, Canada/Spain, 120 minutes)

Whether in repertory theatrical runs or the newest physical media release, moviegoers often hear about and get excited for new restorations of their favorite older films (such as the celebrated 2017 restoration of Night of the Living Dead, which we ran at the Webster Film Series back in March), or sometimes new discoveries from key filmmakers that were thought lost to time, be they long-lost films from Orson Welles or John Ford or missing footage from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis. What we don’t as often have is the privilege of seeing how these materials are stored, how they are found, and how they are restored. In Inés Toharia’s Film, the Living Record of Our Memory, we’re taken on a tour through many of the world’s greatest film archives and talk to archivists, technicians, curators, cinephiles, filmmakers, and more, about why this work is vital to our cultural fabric.

In English, French, Japanese, Catalan, Arabic, and Spanish, with English subtitles as needed.