Name: Cinephile Heaven: THE SEALED SOIL • New 4K Restoration!
Start: 2025-10-01T20:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-01T21:30:00-04:00
Location: Brattle Theatre

$Cinephile Heaven: THE SEALED SOIL \u2022 New 4K Restoration!$

New 4K Restoration! The earliest complete surviving feature film directed by an Iranian woman, Marva Nabili’s THE SEALED SOIL chronicles a young woman’s resistance to her forced marriage, a rebellion quickly misinterpreted by her family as demonic possession. Breathtaking in its directorial sophistication and restraint, and unblinking in its critique of institutionalized misogyny, this is a too-long-underseen masterstroke of world cinema. – Arbelos Films Brattle Debut
1977 • dir Marva Nabili w/Flora Shabaviz • 91 min • DCP
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Repertory Series
Cinephile Heaven: Cinema Ritrovato on Tour
Fri, Sep 26 – Thu, Oct 2
Learn more: brattlefilm.org/film-series/cinephile-heaven-cinema-ritrovato-on-tour/
Each summer, a movie-lover’s dream unfolds in Bologna, Italy when Il Cinema Ritrovato (Cinema Rediscovered) takes over this charming Italian city. This storied film festival highlights some of the most amazing film restorations and rediscoveries available and brings in guests and cinephiles from all over the world. The Brattle is excited to team up with members of the Cinema Studies program at UMass Boston to bring a touring version of this festival here to our own cinema-crazed shores.
New 35mm Print! 8 ½ • Fri, Sep 26 at 6:00; Sat, Sep 27 at 2:00 • 35mm
New 4K Restoration! DON’T TORTURE A DUCKLING • Fri, Sep 26 • 9:00 • 4K DCP
New Restoration! Cartoon Shorts! FLEISCHER FAIRY TALES • Sat, Sep 27 at 12:00pm
THE BIG HEAT‡ • Sat, Sep 27 • 5:00
New 4K Restoration! THIEF‡ • Sat, Sep 27 • 7:00 • 4K DCP
New 4K Restoration! PINK NARCISSUS • Sat, Sep 27 at 9:45 • 4K DCP
New Digital Restoration! CHRISTOPHER STRONG • Sun, Sep 28 at 1:30
New 4K Restoration! THE SEALED SOIL • Sun, Sep 28 at 4:00; Wed, Oct 1 at 8:00 • 4K DCP
SHANGHAI EXPRESS • Sun, Sep 28 • 6:00 • 4K DCP
New 4K Restoration! FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER • Sun, Sep 28 • 8:00 • 4K DCP
New 4K Restoration! PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID • Mon, Sep 29 • 8:30 • 4K DCP
Elements of Cinema: Free Screening & Discussion! New 4K Restoration! LIFEBOAT • Tue, Sep 30 • 6:00 • 4K DCP
New Restoration! GOLDEN EIGHTIES • Tue, Sep 30 • 8:30
New 4K Restoration! AMORES PERROS • Thu, Oct 2 • 6:00 • 4K DCP
CARRIE • Thu, Oct 2 • 9:00 • 4K DCP
‡ Double Feature