A director’s cut of Dances With Wolves will be shown at the Locarno Film Festival in August. The movie will be fully restored to 4k and will be the second screening on Friday of the festival. The restoration is a collaboration of the work done by Cingrell, a restoration company based in Switzerland, the Locarno Heritage Project, and K5 International. On the festival website, Giona A. Nazzaro, the artistic director for the festival, is quoted as saying,

The Locarno Film Festival’s connection with the history of cinema runs deep and spans all its eras and forms. From the tradition of major, innovative retrospectives – which are enriched each year with new and exciting additions – to the world-renowned restorations of Locarno Heritage, the Festival has fostered a meaningful and multifaceted dialogue both with universally acclaimed masterpieces and with those chapters of cinema yet to be discovered or preserved. From Kevin Costner to Safi Faye, the Locarno Film Festival engages with cinema of the past with an eye to the new generations and the audiences of tomorrow, who are already preparing today for the challenges posed by new technologies.

Among Dances With Wolves, the film festival will also be screening Studio Ghibli’s Grave of the Fireflies, in honor of Isao Takahata, who in past received the Honorific Leopard Award at the festival in 2009.