News Archive

FIAF presented its 2024 FIAF Award to acclaimed German filmmaker Wim Wenders during a special ceremony in Budapest, Hungary, on 19 September 2024 as part of the 7th Budapest Classics Film Marathon.

Registrations are now open for the new Thursday Workshop “No database required: Storing and accessing metadata in a common/generic way”, to take place online on 17 October 2024.

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of René Beauclair, former Head of the Cinémathèque québécoise's documentation centre, member of the FIAF Documentation Commission (1987-2007), and long-time indexer for FIAF's Periodcals Indexing Project.

Take part in the 2024 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Celebrations on 27 October and post information about your event on the dedicated page of the CCAAA Website.

Applications are now open for the 9th Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop India, which will take place in Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), from 7 to 14 November 2024.

Oliver Hanley has been appointed Editor of the Journal of Film Preservation following a rigorous recruitment process. He succeeds Elaine Burrows, the Journal's Editor for the last ten years.

The FIAF Disaster Handbook is now available as a free PDF file and in print.

The new issue of the FIAF Bulletin Online is out! You can read it on our online platform or download it.

The FIAF Cataloguing & Documentation Commission has just published a new resource entitled "Best Practices for the Cataloguing of Film-Related Materials" on FIAF's GitHub account.

Former Cinemateca Director José Manuel Costa was elected FIAF Honorary Member by the General Assemby in Bangkok on 25 April 2024.

No. 110 (April 2024) of the Journal of Film Preservation is out and can be read on the Calameo platform for free. The paper version will be shipped to FIAF affiliates and JFP subscribers at the end of April.

Registrations for the 2024 FIAF Congress are now closed. If you are a member of the FIAF community and forgot to register online, please contact the FIAF Secretariat.

It is with great sadness that we have learned the passing of FIAF Honorary Member and former P.I.P. Editor Karen Jones at the age of 86.

It is with great sadness that we must inform you of the passing of Wolfgang Klaue, one of the most important figures in the history of our Federation, at the age of 88.

A massive effort coordinated by Artistic Freedom Initiative, FIAF, the Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek (SDK) and Arsenal - Institute for Film and Video Art in Berlin has brought three Afghan film archivists at risk under Taliban rule to safety in Germany.

Applications for the 10th FIAF Film Restoration Summer School in Bologna are open until 16 February 2024.

Registrations are now open for the new Thursday Workshop “CEN 15907 in practice: Using the Variant in the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)”, to take place online on 7 March 2024, 5pm CET.

Registrations for the 8th FIAF Winter School on Programming Film Heritage to take place in Paris on 6 & 7 March 2022 are now open.

Registrations for the 9th FIAF Programming Winter School to take place in Paris on 11 & 12 March 2024 are now open.

The Call for Proposals for the 28th SEAPAVAA Conference, which will take place from 10 to 14 June 2024 in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia, is now accessible online. The submission deadline for proposals on 22 January.

The call for papers for the symposium of the next FIAF Congress in Bangkok (22-23 April 2024), on the theme "Film Archives in the Global South", is still open and the new submission deadline is 15 January 2024.

At its meeting in Brussels on 27-28 November 2023, FIAF's Executive Committee unanimously admitted the FILMMUSEUM POTSDAM - FILMUNIVERSITÄT BABELSBERG KONRAD WOLF (Potsdam, Germany), and the SINEMATEK / SINEMA EVI (Istanbul, Turkey) as FIAF Associates.

The new FIAF-supported publication Share That Knowledge! A Road Map for Sharing Knowledge across Generations of Audiovisual Archivists is now available for free as a PDF file.

New Online Thursday Workshops have been announced by the FIAF Commissions for 2024.

The FIAF Secretariat has to new premises in Brussels. Please amend your records accordingly!

The new round of funding is open to all members of the FIAF community until 31 October.

FIAF and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, a FIAF Member) presented the 2023 FIAF Award to Mexican filmmaker Guillermo del Toro on Friday 8 September 2023 during a special ceremony at TIFF’s new bar-café Varda in Toronto.

Registrations are now closed for the forthcoming Online Thursday Workshop on the theme “Institutionalized Curation” on 14 September 2023, as we have reached full capacity.

The Call for Papers for the 2nd Global Audiovisual Archiving Conference organized by Archive/Counter-Archive, Eye Filmmuseum, and the Toronto International Film Festival, is open until 1 October 2023. The Conference will take place From 12 to 14 July 2024 in Toronto.

The FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission is excited to announce the launch of their FIAFcore ontology.

Hans Helmut Prinzler, former Director of the Deutsche Kinemathek, died on 18 June 2023.

Applications to register for BAVASS 2023 are now open until 25 August.

Pierre Jutras, curator and programmer at the Cinémathèque québécoise for 33 years, passed away on 22 June. Marcel Jean, the current directeur of the Cinémathèque québécoise, asked us to share this short tribute.

The annual ACE workshop will take place on Tuesday 27 June, 13:30-17:00 at the MAMbo – Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna. This year’s workshop will focus on the state of digital preservation and the strategies for sharing digital content, VOD platforms, archival festivals, and cross-border access to European film heritage. Admission is free.

The FIAF/Technès book Tales from the Vaults: Film Technology over the Years and across Continents will be launched on 30 June 2023. You can now order it via the FIAF website.

At the Cannes Film Festival in May, the ACE revealed the fourth edition of "A Season of Classic Films" and announced the winner of its Joint Restoration Grant.

Registrations are now open for the new Thursday Workshop “Introduction to the Open Archival Information System (OAIS) for Film Archives” (Beginners), to take place online on 6 July 2023, 5 p.m. (CET).

The AMIA Conference Committee invites proposal submissions for sessions, posters, and workshops for the AMIA Annual Conference to be held from 15 to 17 November 2023 in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

No fewer than 10 FIAF affiliates were involved in the restored films selected for this year's Cannes Classics, as announced by the Festival de Cannes.

At its meeting on 20 April in Mexico City, the 2023 FIAF General Assembly decided by an overwhelming majority vote to upgrade the affiliation status of the Yale Film Archive from Associate to Member.

On Thursday 20 April 2023 in Mexico City, Iván Trujillo Bolio was elected FIAF Honorary Member by a unanimous vote of the delegates present or represented at the FIAF General Assembly.

On 21 April 2023, the FIAF General Assembly elected a new Executive Committee. Peter Bagrov succeeds Frédéric Maire as FIAF President.

Registrations are now open for the new Thursday Workshop on “Shifting Cultural Practices - Rights Clearance and the Quotation Exception within Film Archives”, to take place online on 18 May 2023, 5 p.m. (CET).

Registrations for the forthcoming FIAF Technical and Cataloguing Short Course which will take place from 19 to 21 June 2023 in Riga, are open until 5 May.

Registrations for the forthcoming FIAF Technical Training Short Course, which will take place on 11-12 May 2023 at the National Film Institute Hungary - Film Archive in Budapest, are open until 7 April.

Registrations for the forthcoming CDC Workshop on Cataloguing Film-Related Materials, which will take place on 25-26 May 2023 at the Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm, are open until 7 April.

Registrations for the second CinEx Lab event in Paris on 13-14 April 2023 are open until 2 April.

The FIAF Executive Committee has issued a Statement about the nitrate fire in Vincennes (France), which caused the death of two people in August 2020.

The Call for Proposals for the 27th SEAPAVAA Conference, which will take place from 8 – 13 May 2023 in Pattaya, Thailand. is now accessible online. The submission deadline for proposals on 20 March 2023.

"The Multiple Lives of Images", a symposium that brought together in Beirut individuals and institutions working with various film and image archives to exchange on our respective practices and collectively draw a roadmap for future projects and collaborations, took place from 20 to 22 January.

Our South African colleague and former FIAF Execuitive Committee member Melisia Shinners passed away on 22 Janaury at the age of 72.

'FAQ: Collection Management Systems' is a new online resource published by the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission.

It is with great sadness that we heard of the passing, on 11 December 2022 at the age of 95, of Adrienne Mancia, former curator of the Department of Film at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and one of the most respected programmers and curators in the film heritage field.

British actor Tilda Swinton was presented with the 2022 FIAF Award at the National Library of Scotland's Moving Image Archive in Glasgow on Monday 28 November 2022. Check the video of the ceremony, the text of Tilda Swinton's acceptance speech, and a photo gallery.

It is with great sadness that we inform you about the death of Anna Sienkiewicz-Rogowska, former deputy-director of the Filmoteka Narodowa - Instytut Audiowizualny (FINA), a friend to many in the FIAF community.

You can now visualize all events of this year's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on a dedicated world map! You can add your own event on the dedicated CCAAA webpage.

Discover the line-up of free screenings of restored films curated by members of ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes, this autumn.

Applications are now open for the 7th edition of the Film Restoration and Preservation Workshop India, which will take place in Mumbai from 4 to 10 December 2022.

Registrations are now open for the CDC Thrusday Workshop on "Using ffmpeg in a film archive Beginners level", to take place online on 24 November 2022.

In November, Camille Blot-Wellens will lead three workshops (in English, French, and Spanish) for film archivists of the FIAF community, on how to use Physical Characteristics of Early Films as Aids to Identification.

It is with great sadness that FIAF learned of the passing of the legendary Swiss-French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who received a FIAF Award in 2019.

The 2022 Early film festival in Vilnius, organized by Pirmoji Banga, will host a conference on "Film Heritage Without Borders" on 16-17 September. The event will be streamed online.

Thierry Frémaux, director of the Lyon-based Lumière Institute and Cannes International Film Festival, is special guest at the forthcoming Budapest Classics Film Marathon, which will shine a spotlight on the work of the Lumière Institute. The full programme is available online.

The Deutsche Kinemathek has just issued a press release about its forthcoming Film Restored – The Film Heritage Festival (21-25 September) in Berlin. Applications for accreditation will be accepted until 12 September.

FIAF has written to the Ukranian authorities regardng the recent annoucement of the 'reorganization' of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre (Kyiv).

Registration is now open for the 2022 Virtual SARBICA Symposium on the theme "Preservation & Sustainability: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?" that will take place on 15-17 November 2022.

The AMIA Conference Committee invites proposal submissions for sessions, posters, and workshops for the AMIA Annual Conference to be held December 7-9, 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA. Submission deadline: 15 August.

Registrations for SEAPAVAA’s virtual 2022 Conference, from 19 – 21 July 2022, are open until 12 July. Note that this event is free of charge but places are limited.

The FIAF Commissions have been developing a workshop series that will begin in the autumn of 2022. They will be covering a wide range of topics discussed in FIAF. They are planned as online events and will be conducted in English. The first four workshops have been announced.

The Third Edition of the ACE's A Season of Classic Films Kicks Off with Face to Face (Greece, 1966) and Blue 9 (Yugoslavia, 1950) on 9 and 10 June. Both online screenings offer worldwide access with English subtitles.

The video recordings of the 2022 FIAF Symposium in Budapest are now accessivle to all on the FIAF website.

Three film heritage institution in Armenia, Estonia, and France recently applied for FIAF affiliaiton and were admitted as FIAF Associates by the FIAF Executive Committee at its meeting in Budapest on 23 April 2022.

Karen Jones, former Head of Documentation at the Danish Film Museum, Vice-President of the FIAF Documentation Commission, and first Editor of FIAF’s Periodicals Indexing Project, was elected FIAF Honorary Member by the General Assembly in Budapest.

The full schedule of the 7th Eye International Conference, to take place in Amsterdam from 29-31 May 2022, is now available and registration is open.

The second edition of this summer school supported by FIAF will take place from 5-9 September in Potsdam. Applications are now open and FIAF scholarships are available.

FIAF announces various events and publications to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Periodicals Indexing Project (P.I.P.) throughout 2022.

ArteKino Classics kicked off on 29 March 2022. It consists of a three-month-long highlight, followed by a monthly offering from June 2022. The films will be accessible Europe-wide with subtitles in six languages on arte.tv. The twenty recently restored films from almost as many countries were selected in close consultation with the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE).

The CCAAA is advertising a new position of programme coordinator (10 days a year). Apply by 25 April 2022.

The Tbilisi International Archival Film Festival, organized by the National Archives of Georgia, will be held for the first time from 5-9 October 2022. The theme of festival is "The First Archival Films", and the call for film submissions is open until 1 July.

FIAT/IFTA's 2022 World Conference will take place in Cape Town from 6-6 October 2022. The Call for Papers is now available.

Two complementary conferences in Switzerland and France will be celebrating the centenary of 9.5mm and Pathé-Baby at the end of 2022. Their Call for Papers are now open.

It is with great sadness that we have learned of the passing of former P.I.P. Editor Frances Thorpe at the age of 79.

FIAF has issued a public statement following the latest dramatic events in Ukraine.

The list of all selected participants is now available.

Eye Filmmuseum presents the 8^th edition of This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice, a public lecture series devoted to notable projects in the fields of film restoration and film heritage, to take place in Amsterdam between 8 March and 18 May 2022.

The programme of the Conference on "The Magic Lantern in Leisure, Entertainment and Popular Culture" to be held in Belgium in May 2022 as part of the B-Magic Project, is now available, and registrations are open.

The 7th FIAF Winter School on Programming Film Heritage will take place in Paris over two days, on 28 & 29 March 2022. Registrations are now open.

Registrations for the 2022 FIAF Congress are now open! Fill in and submit the online form by 10 April.

Acclaimed film director and historian, and 2007 FIAF Award recipient Peter Bogdanovich has died aged 82.

The submission deadline for the Symposium of the 2022 FIAF Congress has been extended to 13 January 2022.

The website of the 2022 FIAF Congress, due to take place in Budapest from 24-29 April 2022, is now available. Registrations will open in January.

It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of our colleague and friend Laurent Bismuth, until recently Head of the Cataloguing and Documentation Department at the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) in Bois d’Arcy, France, and a member of the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission.

The fifth edition of No Time to Wait, a free three-day conference focused on open media, open standards, and digital audiovisual preservation conference, and initially due to take place on 8-10 December 2021 at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum, will now be an online event.

Vittorio Boarini, founder and former director of the Cineteca di Bologna, passed away on 30 October 2021, a few days short of his 86^th birthday.

On 15 October 2021, FIAF legend Jacques Ledoux would have been 100. A new online exhibition marks the centenary of his birth.

The festival Film Restored, organized by the Deutsche Kinemathek, will take place from 3 to 7 November 2021 at the Filmhaus in Berlin and online. The complete programme is now online and registration is open!