Screen Malta Restoration: Sons of the Sea

This 1926 silent film was the first to be filmed in Malta. Featuring D.C. Kenerdine and E Godfrey as two young men – one a rich boy and the other a gardener’s son – who join the British Royal Navy in 1914 and later save a girl from Mediterranean bandits.

The event will also include a presentation by Jean Pierre Borg about the film’s significance as the first foreign film to shoot in Malta and its historical importance as the first narrative film allowed by the Admiralty on its ships. Plus a presentation detailing the restoration interventions that went into Sons of the Sea by Anthony Badger, Head of Restoration, Silver Salt Restoration Ltd.

Screening of Sons of the Sea with live Piano accompaniment by Kris Spiteri.