"The World Cinema Foundation is a natural expansion of my love for movies. Seventeen years ago, we created the Film Foundation to help preserve American cinema. It has created a base upon which we can build. There is now, I believe, a film preservation consciousness. The World Cinema Foundation is a non-profit organisation created to help developing countries preserve their cinematic treasures. We want to help strengthen and support the work of international archives, and provide a resource for those countries lacking the archival and technical facilities to do the work themselves."
Martin Scorsese, Chairman

At its launch at the 60th Festival de Cannes, the World Cinema Foundation brought together around Martin Scorsese: Fatih Akin, Souleymane Cissé, Guillermo Del Toro, Stephen Frears, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu, Abbas Kiarostami, Deepa Mehta, Ermanno Olmi, Raoul Peck, Cristi Puiu, Walter Salles, Abderrahmane Sissako, Elia Suleiman, Bertrand Tavernier, Wim Wenders and Wong Kar Wai, united in their determination to increase both public and industry awareness of the importance of protecting world cinema heritage. The second assembly of the World Cinema Foundation will be held again in Cannes this year.

SUSUZ YAZ(Dry Summer) by Metin Erksan (1964, 85’, Turkey), film presented by Fatih Akin

HANYOby Kim Ki-young (1960, 109’, Korea)

TOUKI BOUKIby Djibril Diop Mambéty (1973, 88’, Senegal)