Our annual To Save and Project festival returns in 2025 with a rich selection of newly restored treasures from archives around the world. This year’s program spans nearly a century of cinema, from pioneering German Expressionist works like Robert Wiene’s Raskolnikow (1923) to groundbreaking independent films of the 1970s like James Bidgood’s Pink Narcissus (1971). Films from Argentina, Thailand, India, Syria, the Czech Republic, and beyond highlight cinema’s global diversity and the work of film preservation institutions worldwide.
Highlights include the rediscovery of Yevgeni Cherviakov’s forgotten Soviet masterpiece My Son (1928), found in Argentina and restored by GEM; the racy pre-Code Hollywood comedy The Greeks Had a Word for Them (1932) from the Library of Congress; and André Bonzel’s Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By, a powerful repurposing of home movies from Janus Films. The program features restorations by major archives and funders, including The Film Foundation, UCLA Film & Television Archive, the Cinémathèque française, and Filmmuseum München.
The series opens on January 9 with the world premiere of MoMA’s newly upgraded restoration of Frank Borzage’s transcendent romance 7th Heaven (1927), and concludes on January 30 with the world premiere of MoMA’s new reconstruction of the long unseen, original 1918 version of Charles Chaplin’s World War I comedy Shoulder Arms.
Organized by Dave Kehr, Curator, Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art, and Cindi Rowell, independent curator.
Film at MoMA is made possible by CHANEL.
Additional support is provided by the Annual Film Fund. Leadership support for the Annual Film Fund is provided by Debra and Leon D. Black, with major funding from The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, the Association of Independent Commercial Producers (AICP), and The Young Patrons Council of The Museum of Modern Art.
