Film Festival: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, Italy, October 4-11, 2025

Le Giornate del Cinema Muto returns on October 4-11, 2025, with another terrific lineup of rare titles and restorations. This year’s edition features Betty Becomes a Maid (1911) starring Mabel Normand, Mabel at the Wheel (1914) directed by and starring Normand; Tillie’s Tomato Surprise (1915) starring Marie Dressler; Father Was a Loafer (1915) starring Alice Howell; East Lynne (1925) written by Lenore J. Coffee; God’s Half Acre (1916) written by June Mathis; and Our Hospitality (1923) starring Natalie Talmadge. Additionally, the festival will be screening a slew of D.W. Griffith films from 1908 starring Florence Lawrence (e.g. The Planter’s Wife, The Taming of the Shrew, and An Awful Moment, among many others), Marion Leonard (The Feud and the Turkey), and both Leonard and Jeanie Macpherson (The Test of Friendship).

The 2025 lineup also features films by some not-yet-profiled pioneers such as Ma Cousine (1900) directed by Marguerite Vrignault and Are Parents People? (1925) written by Frances Agnew.

For the full program lineup and more information about the event, visit the festival’s program page or website.