The World Cinema Project (WCP), formerly World Cinema Foundation, is a non-profit organization devoted to the preservation and restoration of neglected world cinema, founded by Martin Scorsese.
Founded in 2007 as the World Cinema Foundation by American filmmaker Martin Scorsese,[1] it was inspired by the work of The Film Foundation in the United States, a similar venture which Scorsese founded with George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Spielberg and Clint Eastwood in 1990.
Trances, a music documentary about Nass El Ghiwane an influential Moroccan music group, was picked by Martin Scorsese as the inaugural release for the foundation; it was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and at Djemaa el-Fna square in Morocco.[2]
The World Cinema Foundation is backed by an advisory board "Filmmaker Council" which includes Martin Scorsese, Fatih Akin, Souleymane Cissé, Guillermo del Toro, Stephen Frears, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Wong Kar-Wai, Abbas Kiarostami, Deepa Mehta, Ermanno Olmi, Raoul Peck, Cristi Puiu, Walter Salles, Abderrahmane Sissako, Elia Suleiman, Bertrand Tavernier, Wim Wenders, and Tian Zhuangzhuang.[3]
After leaving his position at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Kent Jones became the foundation's executive director.
| English title | Year | Director | Country of origin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| After the Curfew | 1954 | Indonesia | ||
| Alyam, Alyam | 1978 | Morocco | ||
| Badou Boy | 1970 | Senegal | ||
| Black Girl[4] [5] [6] | 1966 | Senegal & France | ||
| Borom Sarret[7] | 1963 | Senegal | ||
| The Boys from Fengkuei | 1983 | Taiwan | ||
| A Brighter Summer Day[8] | 1991 | Taiwan | ||
| Chess of the Wind[9] | 1976 | Iran | ||
| Chronicle of the Years of Fire | 1975 | Algeria | ||
| The Cloud-Capped Star | 1960 | India | ||
| The Color of Pomegranates | 1969 | Soviet Union | ||
| Contras'city | 1969 | Senegal | ||
| Downpour | 1972 | Iran | ||
| Dry Summer[10] | 1964 | Turkey | ||
| The Dupes | 1973 | Syria | ||
| Eight Deadly Shots | 1972 | Finland | ||
| Él | 1953 | Mexico | ||
| El fantasma del convento | 1934 | Mexico | ||
| The Eloquent Peasant[11] | 1969 | Egypt | ||
| Enamorada | 1946 | Mexico | ||
| The Housemaid[12] | 1960 | South Korea | ||
| Insiang | 1976 | Philippines | ||
| Kalpana | 1948 | India | ||
| Kummatty | 1979 | India | ||
| Law of the Border | 1966 | Turkey | ||
| Limite[13] [14] | 1931 | Brazil | ||
| Los Olvidados | 1950 | Mexico | ||
| Lucía | 1968 | Cuba | ||
| Lumumba: Death of a Prophet | 1990 | Democratic Republic of the Congo | ||
| Macario | 1960 | Mexico | ||
| Manila in the Claws of Light | 1975 | Philippines | ||
| Memories of Underdevelopment[15] | 1968 | Cuba | ||
| Muna Moto | 1975 | Cameroon | ||
| Mysterious Object at Noon | 2000 | Thailand | ||
| The Night of Counting the Years[16] | 1969 | Egypt | ||
| Pixote | 1980 | Brazil | ||
| Prisioneros de la tierra | 1939 | Argentina | ||
| Raid into Tibet | 1966 | United Kingdom | ||
| Redes[17] | 1936 | Mexico | ||
| Revenge[18] | 1989 | Soviet Union | ||
| A River Called Titas | 1973 | India & Bangladesh | ||
| Sambizanga | 1972 | Angola | ||
| Soleil Ô[19] | 1970 | Mauritania | ||
| The Stranger and the Fog | 1974 | Iran | ||
| Taipei Story | 1985 | Taiwan | ||
| Thampu | 1978 | India | ||
| Touki Bouki[20] [21] | 1973 | Senegal | ||
| Trances[22] | 1981 | Morocco | ||
| The Treasure | 1970 | Sri Lanka | ||
| Two Girls on the Street | 1939 | Hungary | ||
| Two Monks | 1934 | Mexico | ||
| The Woman with the Knife | 1969 | Côte d'Ivoire | ||
| Xiao Wu | 1997 | China | ||
| Yam Daabo | 1986 | Burkina Faso & France |
| English title | Year | Director | Country of origin | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Winds of the Aures | 1967 | Algeria | ||
| Faces of Women | 1985 | Côte d'Ivoire |