To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation

January 09, 2025 – January 30, 2025

The Museum of Modern Art

7th Heaven. 1927. USA. Directed by Frank Borzage. Courtesy the Museum of Modern Art Film Stills Archive

The Museum of Modern Art announces To Save and Project: The 21st MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, the latest edition of the annual festival dedicated to celebrating newly preserved and restored films from archives, studios, distributors, foundations, and independent filmmakers from around the world. Running from January 9 to January 30, 2025, this year’s festival showcases over 25 feature films and shorts programs in newly preserved or restored versions.

This year’s program will open and close with the restoration premieres of two major silent films preserved in MoMA’s archives: Frank Borzage’s transcendent romance 7th Heaven (1927), in a new upgrade from MoMA’s previous restoration, and Charles Chaplin’s World War I comedy Shoulder Arms, in a reconstruction of the seldom-seen original 1918 version, presented here as a work-in-progress.

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