Locarno Pro Heritage Online Restoration Contest Winner – Minerva Pictures’ The Cannibals by Liliana Cavani
During the Locarno Pro Awards Ceremony, The Locarno Film Festival’s industry strand also revealed the winner of its second Heritage Restoration Contest, whose winner will receive a full restoration progress by film lab Cinegrell and will be shown at the Locarno Film Festival 2025.
I cannibali (The Year of the Cannibals, 1969) by Liliana Cavani won the second edition of the Heritage Restoration Contest, following an open call in March. The film, represented by Minerva Pictures, will receive a full restoration progress by film lab Cinegrell and will be shown at the Locarno Film Festival 2025.
The jury for the Heritage Restoration Contest, composed of Ido Abram (Director, Netherlands Film Festival), Nicole T. Allemann (Head of Film Restoration & Lab, Cinegrell) and K.J. Relth-Miller (Director of Film Programs, Academy Museum of Motion Pictures), said the film “is still (…) relevant and provocative (…) and its restoration will allow new audiences to rediscover the work of master of Italian and international cinema”.
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