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Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 6 Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion

Pre-order - Release date: 19.01.2027

Original title: Mortu Nega / São Paulo, Incorporated / The Woman with the Knife / The Stranger and the Fog

Year: 1965 - 1988
Country: Guinea-Bissau / Brazil / Cote d'Ivoire / Iran
Region code: A
Format: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515346313

Image: 1.37:1 / 1.66:1 (1080p)

HDR: -

Audio: Kriolu / Portuguese / French / Persian

Subtitles: English

Age rating: Not Rated

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bia Gomes, Walmor Chagas, Marie Vieyra, Parvaneh Massoumi

Director: Flora Gomes, Luiz Sérgio Person, Timité Bassori, Bahram Beyzaie


Synopsis:

Established by Martin Scorsese in 2007, The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project has maintained a fierce commitment to preserving and presenting masterpieces from around the globe, with a growing roster of more than seventy restorations of works by essential filmmakers. This collector’s set gathers four arresting and stylistically distinctive films, ranging from the politically charged to the mythical and dreamlike, from Guinea-Bissau (Mortu nega), Brazil (São Paulo, Incorporated), Côte d’Ivoire (The Woman with the Knife), and Iran (The Stranger and the Fog). Each title is a significant contribution to the art form and a window onto a cinematic tradition that international audiences previously had limited opportunities to experience.

Extras:

• New 4K digital restorations of Mortu nega; São Paulo, Incorporated; The Woman with the Knife; and The Stranger and the Fog, all overseen by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project in collaboration with the Cineteca di Bologna, with uncompressed monaural soundtracks
• New introductions by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project founder Martin Scorsese
• New interviews featuring director Flora Gomes (on Mortu nega) and filmmaker Walter Salles (on São Paulo, Incorporated) and excerpted archival interviews with director Bahram Beyzaie and actor Parvaneh Massoumi (on The Stranger and the Fog)
• New documentary featuring Timité Bassori, director of The Woman with the Knife; actor Bienvenu Neba; cameraman N’Gouan Kacou; and art historian Yacouba Konaté
• The Return of Amílcar Cabral (1976), a documentary short codirected by Gomes, in a new 4K restoration by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Cineteca di Bologna
• Updated English subtitle translations
• PLUS: Essays by critics and scholars Yasmina Price, Fábio Andrade, Chrystel Olouköi, and Ehsan Khoshbakht