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World Cinema Foundation at BAM
Scorsese’s WCF screens 12 restored works from around the globe.
Martin Scorsese
BAMcinématek will showcase the complete portfolio of restored works by the World Cinema Foundation (WCF), the nonprofit organization founded by Martin Scorsese.
Founded in 1990 by Scorsese alongside George Lucas, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg, and Clint Eastwood), which raised awareness about and rescued works in leading film archives,the WCF dedicates itself to preserving and restoring neglected films from around the world.
This screening series affords audiences the first opportunity to see the previously hard-to-find work of master filmmakers, including all the restorations that premiered at Cannes earlier this year: Kazakh New Waver
Ermek Shinarbaev’s hard-hitting opus Revenge (1989), Bengali-Indian neorealist Ritwik Ghatak’s epic A River Called Titas (1973), André De Toth’s early Hungarian work Two Girls on the Street (1939), and Egyptian director Shadi Abdel Salam’s poetic short The Eloquent Peasant (1969).
Scorsese sits on the organization’s advisory board alongside other giants of international cinema: Abbas Kiarostami, Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, Fatih Akin, Wong Kar-wai, Deepa Mehta, Guillermo Del Toro, Ermanno Olmi, Elia Suleiman, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and others.
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