Cineteca di Bologna

"...Cineteca di Bologna, one of the world’s major film archives, whose L’Immagine Ritrovata lab has been restoring and preserving the legacy of cinema for over twenty-five years. Its restorations regularly premiere at major festivals such as Cannes and Venice before heading out to repertory theaters around the world."—The Criterion Collection, 2018 Laboratorio L'immagine Ritrovata in Bologna, Italy, was founded in 1992, and owned by the Cineteca di Bologna, with branches, ''L'Image Retrouvée, in Paris, and L’Immagine Ritrovata Asia'', in Hong Kong. == Festivals ==

Among the various shows and festivals organized by the Cineteca di Bologna are: Il Cinema Ritrovato, Visioni Italiane and Human Rights Nights Film Festival. Il Cinema Ritrovato Il Cinema Ritrovato is a movie festival dedicated to the rediscovery of rare and not well-known movies, with particular interest to the first cinematographic productions. It has been held since 1986 and it presents a precious selection of rare movies or works that are considered lost, recovered from historical archives of many countries, and sometimes even restored films. The movies are projected in various places throughout the historical centre of Bologna, including Piazza Maggiore. From 2001 until his death in 2014, the artistic director of the festival was Finnish film critic Peter von Bagh. The silent cinema critic Vittorio Martinelli also worked with the festival until his death in 2008. The current directors of the festival are Gian Luca Farinelli, Mariann Lewinsky, Cecilia Cenciarelli and Ehsan Khoshbakht. == See also ==