From 29 October to 18 November at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, a selection from the programme of the 44th edition of the festival

The Pordenone Silent Film Festival is back in Paris thanks to a partnership with the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, which from 29 October to 18 November will be presenting ‘Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, sélection du festival de Pordenone 2025’ in the French capital. Eighteen films have been selected from among those screened a few weeks ago during the festival’s 44th edition at the Teatro Verdi, including 12 features and 6 shorts, all presented with live accompaniment at the Fondation’s cinema on Avenue des Gobelins, near Place d’Italie: 14 shows are scheduled for a total of 28 screenings (each show will be presented twice).

Jay Weissberg, director of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival, curated the selection together with the Fondation Seydoux-Pathé and will be in Paris from 6 to 12 November to introduce some of the screenings before heading to Estonia to take part in a round table discussion on archive film programming at the Film Museum in Tallinn, organised as part of the 10th edition of the Baltic Sea Region Film History Conference.

Eight of the thirteen sections of the 2025 edition are represented in Paris, with exciting rediscoveries and forgotten masterpieces brought back to life thanks to new restorations. Among these rediscoveries, mention should be made of L’innamorata, L’ombra and La piccola parrocchia, starring the great actress Italia Almirante Manzini, to whom the Giornate will dedicate a second series in 2026.

The Fondation Seydoux-Pathé programme opens and closes with Wilhelm Thiele’s spectacular Die Dame mit der Maske (1928), but also included is the film that inaugurated this year’s festival, Augusto Genina’s Cirano di Bergerac (1922-1923), with its splendid colours brought back to life in a new restoration (the Italian director’s Il siluramento dell’Oceania will also be screened). The festival’s closing night film, Our Hospitality (1923) by Buster Keaton and Jack Blystone, is similarly included among the Paris screenings. In addition to the three features starring Italia Almirante Manzini, there’s the gripping The Man Who Came Back (1924) by Emmett Flynn, which will also be included in the programme of the Festival des Fiertés, a festival of LGBTQIA+ cultures and identities. Not to be left out: the masterpiece by Chinese director Richard Poh, Love and Duty (1931), starring the legendary Ruan Lingyu; the children’s film made in Ukraine in 1929 Pryhody Poltynnyka (The Adventures of a Penny) by Axel Lundin; and another Italian film, La gerla di papà Martin (1923) by Mario Bonnard, based on the French play Les Crochets du Père Martin.

Among the shorts, the city symphony on Kharkiv, Narysy radianskoho mista (Scenes from a Soviet City, 1929) by Dmytro Dalskyi together with La Capitale du Brésil (1931-32), about a Rio de Janeiro that’s profoundly changed from the metropolis known today, and four titles from the retrospective on the Belgian avant-garde.

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