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The annual To Save and Project festival has unveiled its 2025 lineup. Presented by the Museum of Modern Art and CHANEL, the 21st annual event is the definitive international festival of film preservation. The latest edition is dedicated to celebrating newly preserved and restored films from archives, studios, distributors, foundations, and independent filmmakers from around the world.
The 2025 To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation will take place from January 9 to January 30, and include more than 25 feature films and shorts programs in newly preserved or restored versions.
Frank Borzage’s “7th Heaven” (1927) will open the festival, as presented in a new upgrade from MoMA’s previous restoration. Charlie Chaplin’s 1918 World War I comedy “Shoulder Arms” will close the festival with a reconstruction of the seldom-seen original version presented as a work-in-progress.
Highlights also range from Yevgeny Chervyakov’s long-lost Soviet film “My Son (Moy Syn),” which was recently discovered in Argentina, and Robert Wiene’s “Raskolnikow” (1923) in a new restoration from Filmmuseum München.
James Bidgood’s acclaimed homoerotic underground classic “Pink Narcissus” (1971) will screen, as restored by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, while Anthony Harvey’s 1966 adaptation of Amiri Baraka’s “Dutchman” and Anthony Mann’s Western “Bend of the River” (1952) will also play.
Vichit Kounavudhi’s “Dear Wife (Mia Luang)” (1978) and “Stars in Broad Daylight (Nujūm An-Nahar)” (1988) are among the international selections.
To Save and Project is organized by Dave Kehr, the curator of the Department of Film at the Museum of Modern Art, along with independent curator Cindi Rowell. The program gives a special thanks to Olivia Priedite, Film Program Coordinator, and Steve Macfarlane, Department Assistant, Department of Film.
The Museum of Modern Art is considered to be the first cultural institution to collect film as an art form. The museum has been at the forefront of the preservation and restoration of moving-image material, especially with the founding of the To Save and Project festival in 2003.
Co-presented with MoMA’s long-running Modern Mondays series, a highlight of this year’s festival is An Evening with Heather McAdams on January 27. Known for her work as a cartoonist, filmmaker, and country music preservationist, McAdams brought a distinctive DIY sensibility to Chicago’s experimental film scene in the 1980s with handmade animations and personal documentaries. The program features newly restored 16mm prints of her short films, followed by a conversation with the artist, moderated by curator Sophie Cavoulacos.
Alongside the 2025 festival, the museum will host a screening “Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By (Et j’aime à la fureur),” as introduced by “Man Bites Dog” co-director André Bonzel.
Check out the full lineup here.
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