Works Shown
The following is a list of some works that have been shown at the festival, as well as themes engaged and directors featured, in addition to showing the complete works of D.W. Griffith, which are being shown in 12 parts, 1997–2008.
- 1999: Nordic cinema of the 1920s, Georges Méliès, Alfred Hitchcock, Erich von Stroheim
- 2000: Louis Feuillade, German avant garde, Walter Lantz, "The world of 1900"
- 2001: Abel Gance's Napoléon reconstructed by Kevin Brownlow; Finis Terrae by Jean Epstein; Japanese silent film
- 2002: "Funny Ladies", Italian avant garde, Swiss silent film, Jenő Janovics
- 2003: Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack, Ivan Mozzuhin, Thai silent film, Celebrating a century of flight
- 2004: Dziga Vertov, British film of the 1920s, The General by Buster Keaton
- 2005: Japanese silent film, André Antoine, Au Bonheur des dames by Julien Duvivier, Flesh and the Devil by Clarence Brown, The Scarlet Letter by Victor Sjöström, Jerry the Tyke
- 2006: Silly Symphonies by Walt Disney, films of the Nordisk Film Company, Cabiria by Giovanni Pastrone, Thomas H. Ince, "Cinema and magic"
- 2007: German silent film, René Clair, Ladislas Starewitch, Chicago by Frank Urson, À propos de Nice by Jean Vigo, Pandora's Box by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
- 2012: George Méliès' Les Aventures de Robinson Crusoé (1903), rediscovered in 2011 and restored
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