MetropolisFritz Lang · 1927
NapoléonAbel Gance · 1927
The Cabinet of Dr. CaligariRobert Wiene · 1920
Seven ChancesBuster Keaton · 1925
The CrowdKing Vidor · 1928
IntoleranceD. W. Griffith · 1916
Classic & Archival Film Distribution
Sala46 Films is an international film distribution company dedicated to classic, silent and archival cinema. We provide curated catalogues and film licensing for cinemas, festivals, cinematheques, cultural institutions, producers and selected platforms.
Collections 2027
Programmes of the season
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Class of 1927
Films turning one hundred in 2027. The summit of silent cinema and the year sound arrived: Lang's Metropolis, Murnau's first American film, Gance's Napoleon, Hitchcock's first thriller and The Jazz Singer, all in a single season.
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Weimar Shadows
German cinema between the wars, from Expressionist nightmare to New Objectivity. Studio artifice, unchained cameras and modern anxieties that shaped the look of horror, science fiction and film noir for decades to come.
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First Documents
The birth of non-fiction cinema. Polar explorers, witch trials, city symphonies and the kino-eye: films that took the camera out of the studio and turned the real world into cinematic form.
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Under the Big Top
Circus, stage and cabaret on the silent and early sound screen. Clowns, phantoms, showmen and singers in films where performance is both spectacle and fate, and where a newly composed score finds its natural home.
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Original music
Every film, a newly composed score
Silent cinema was never meant to be silent. Every title is presented with a newly composed original score, delivered in sync with the master and available in every format we supply. Rehearsal copies are provided to musicians for live performance.
Woman in the MoonFritz Lang · 1929
Licensing & programming
Programming a season, a festival or a single night?
License the films
Screening rights for cinemas, festivals, education, broadcast and streaming, and footage for documentaries and new films. Shortlist titles as you browse and send them in one go: we respond within 48 hours.
Or let us programme it
We curate cycles and retrospectives to measure, and can take on the programming of a cinema, a season or a festival section: selection, rights, screening materials and newly composed scores, handled end to end.
