With introduction by Le Giornate del Cinema Muto Director Jay Weissberg.

BAY AREA PREMIERE Considered lost until the 1980s, Garras de oro (The Dawn of Justice) is regarded as World Cinema’s first explicitly anti-imperialist film. The film follows a newspaper editorialist who publishes an article accusing U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt of violating an international treaty with Colombia, arguing that his role in Panama’s separation renders him […]

During the silent era, the Tenderloin neighborhood in the heart of San Francisco was a thriving hub of film culture, and was home to many film exchanges. These exchanges provided films for all of the movie theaters lining Market Street in that period. This presentation by SFFP's own Kathy Rose O'Regan will discuss the history […]

Every year, the Dutch Silent Film Festival presents recent discoveries and restorations. Carefully restored by film archives and film laboratories from all over the world. But how exactly does this process work and who are the people who bring these films back to life on the big screen? Film restorer Maria Fuentes gives us a […]

As Toni (Corinne Griffith) hopes to break through as an opera star at a singing audition in Budapest, she discovers to her horror that she has been accepted into a vulgar nightclub. She finds solace with the sweet dresser (Louise Dresser) who takes her to Hotel Eden in Monte Carlo. There, Toni's true identity is […]