CINEMA REBORN 2026 - DATES AND VENUES
Cinema Reborn 2026 will be rejigging our format. In 2026 in Sydney and Melbourne we will open on a Friday evening and conclude our season on the next Sunday. In Sydney the season at the Randwick Ritz will run from Friday 1 May to Sunday 10 May and in Melbourne at the Hawthorn Lido from Friday 8 May to Sunday 17 May. We expect over that time to screen between 20-22 programmes in each city, depending on the running times of each of the films chosen. There will be repeat screenings of some of the films on weekdays in Sydney from Monday 4 May to Friday 8 May and in Melbourne from Monday 11 May to Friday 15 May. MAKE A DIARY ENTRY NOW!
TAX DEDUCTIBLE CHARITABLE DONATIONS FOR CINEMA REBORN 2026 NOW OPEN
The major cost of presenting Cinema Reborn comes from the screening fees paid to archives and producers. Since our inception supporters have understood the need for continuing support to ensure that the annual season is able to present the very latest and very best international and Australian film restorations.
Tax deductible charitable donations have enabled us pay these fees and keep our admission charges to regular Ritz and Lido prices (with the lowest student concessions of any similar film-related event). We have once again set up a page via the Australian Cultural Fund to receive donations of any size, large or small. You can find it IF YOU CLICK ON THIS LINK
A NEW BOOK BY ONE OF CINEMA REBORN’S GREAT SUPPORTERS LUCIA SORBERA
Associate Professor Lucia Sorbera is Chair of Arabic Language and Cultures, University of Sydney. She is one of Cinema Reborn's strong supporters. She wrote the excellent program notes for the Cinema Reborn screenings in 2024 of Tewfik Saleh's The Dupes (Syria, 1972), which she also introduced, and wrote the notes for the Cinema Reborn 2025 screenings of Heiny Srour's Leila and The Wolves (UK/Lebanon/France, 1984). Lucia has now published, Biography of a Revolution. The Feminist Roots of Human Rights in Egypt, University of California Press, 2025. Below is some information about the book. Copies are on sale at Better Read Than Dead Bookshop in Newtown or online (more expensive) at Booktopia.
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It is not Egypt's 2011 revolution that opened a space for women's and feminist activism, but—as this book shows—the long history of women's activism that created the intellectual and political background for revolution. By centring the experiences and ideas of multiple generations of women activists and intellectuals, Lucia Sorbera traces the feminist genealogies of Egypt's nationalist, student, Marxist, labor, human rights, and democratic social movements. Biography of a Revolution gathers a series of interrelated intimate and relational stories, charting in vivid detail the entanglements between women's aspirations across a century of politics and friendships. This historical analysis innovatively deploys decolonial and indigenous feminist epistemologies, bringing women's, gender, and feminist history into the centre of Egypt's political, social, and intellectual history. More than a decade after the 2013 military coup, women's intellectual and political activism remains crucial to keeping the embers of revolution aglow.
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