| Film | Country / Director | Year | Notable Detail | | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | | | Senegal / Djibril Diop Mambéty | 1973 | Restored by the WCP in 2008 as part of its first collection | | Ghatashraddha (The Ritual) | India / Girish Kasaravalli | 1977 | Landmark Kannada film restored in 2024 with support from the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation | | Macario | Mexico / Roberto Gavaldón | 1960 | Restored in 4K in 2023 by the WCP and Fundación Televisa, with thanks to Guillermo del Toro | | Dry Summer | Turkey / Metin Erksan | 1964 | Won the Golden Bear at the 1964 Berlin International Film Festival | | Mysterious Objects at Noon | Thailand / Apichatpong Weerasethakul | 2000 | Restored in 2013 by the WCP | | The Housemaid | South Korea / Kim Ki-young | 1960 | A classic of Korean cinema, part of the first World Cinema Project collection | | Trances | Morocco / Ahmed El Maanouni | 1981 | The inaugural release for the World Cinema Project, screened at Cannes in 2007 |
The foundation has breathed new life into foundational American films, ensuring they look stunning on modern 4K displays and theatrical screens. films restored by the film foundation
Every time you watch a pristine 4K restoration of a black-and-white Japanese ghost story or a silent German expressionist nightmare, you are seeing a miracle. You are seeing the work of chemists, archivists, projectionists, and obsessive cinephiles who refused to let entropy win. | Film | Country / Director | Year
Alfred Hitchcock’s psychological thriller was suffering from severe color fading and sound degradation. The Film Foundation, collaborating with Universal Pictures, undertook a massive restoration. Technicians went back to the original VistaVision negatives to reconstruct the vibrant, nightmarish color palette of San Francisco. The legendary soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann was also remastered into digital surround sound. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) The legendary soundtrack by Bernard Herrmann was also
Archivists hunt for the best surviving film elements globally. This often involves tracking down original camera negatives, early generation duplicate negatives, or international release prints.