Charlie Shackleton is a British multimedia artist, filmmaker and essayist who uses film to explore and challenge the conventions and evolution of cinema itself. His work, such as “Beyond Clueless” and “Fear Itself”, examines genres such as teen comedy and horror, always with an investigative and critical approach.

Director’s Cut, the section for the most curious film lovers, is now dedicated exclusively to heritage cinema, presenting a selection of films in newly restored digital prints. The aim is to revisit the history of cinema, recovering forgotten films, highlighting obscure gems and proposing new titles for the canon of ‘great cinema’. This year there’s a bit of everything: between curiosities and masterpieces, between queer musicals and sci-fi pornos, between the ethnographic and the symphonic, between the political and the poetic.

One of the most interesting and indispensable living directors, Jan Švankmajer, is the master under the 2023 spotlight. Between repulsion and fascination, the films of the visual artist turned filmmaker are reflections of a subconscious world, where matter takes on a new enchanted form.