A major work of cinema deserves the possibility of a genuine encounter with a human being.

The conditions in which cinema is encountered today increasingly work against that possibility.

The Cinema Sanctum is an independent cultural initiative that creates and protects the conditions for encounters with significant works of cinema.

A work is given uninterrupted attention, and something increasingly scarce around it: time.

Time to experience the complete film.
Time for silence and distance.
Time to return, look again and converse without the requirement of arriving at a conclusion.

Ordinarily, we give a film its running time.
In a Sanctum Encounter, we give the work a day.

Cinema is our medium.

Attention is our subject.