IndieCollect's RescueFest 2025

RescueFest celebrates 8 glorious 4K restorations of indie movies that couldn’t be seen in a high-quality format until now. Some of the negatives were physically lost for decades. All were restored by nonprofit IndieCollect. Highlights include:

- Opening Night restoration world premiere of Steve Buscemi's acclaimed directorial debut TREES LOUNGE.
(Tickets only at indiecollect.org)

- Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner & quintessential indie comedy IN THE SOUP, starring Steve Buscemi.

- Lourdes Portillo's shocking docu-drama THE DEVIL NEVER SLEEPS, about the murder of her uncle, a restoration world premiere.

- Ryan Gosling's breakthrough lead performance as a Jewish neo-Nazi in THE BELIEVER, winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize, U.S. restoration premiere.

- Restoration world premiere of RATE IT X, which skewers the advertisers who commodify women, coming soon from Kino Lorber.

- TATTOO CITY, restoration world premiere of Emiko Omori’s salute to famous ink artist D.E. Hardy.

- West Coast restoration premiere of BITTER CANE, an eye-opener for anyone who wants to understands what is going on in Haiti today.

- THE SMUGGLER’S WIFE, another great movie by Glen Pitre (godfather of Cajun cinema), starring Tatum O’Neal, Julian Fellows, and Tim Curry.

All screenings to feature Q&As.