Photo: Deutsche Kinemathek / Jennifer Borrmann & Franz Frank.

FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab

21 and 22 October 2025, Berlin

This event has now taken place.

FIAF and the Deutsche Kinemathek are jointly organizing the first FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab in Berlin. Immediately before the film heritage festival Film Restored, film education stakeholders and FIAF members will meet to discuss film education and the future set-up of meetings of this collaborative network.

The annual FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab will offer an opportunity to reflect on the present and future of education as well as outreach in the field of film heritage. The lab will engage with diverse concepts and perspectives of film education, presenting exemplary outreach and education programmes and putting examples into practice. In addition, field- and topic-specific but also social challenges can be addressed within the network, while solutions or even joint projects can be developed. In this way, film heritage related education shall be strengthened from many different perspectives (aesthetically, historically, media-critically, creatively, and practically).

The FIAF Autumn Lab is intended to offer film archives, cinematheques and film museums, as well as committed specialists, a regularly recurring platform for exchange, knowledge transfer and networking. It has been conceived as a joint and collaborative structure in which FIAF member institutions – but also beyond – are invited to exchange ideas and help shape future contents, methods and emphases of educational work. 

The FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab 2025 is made possible with the generous support of the Arbeitskreis selbständiger Kultur-Institute e.V. (Aski).

Dates

Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 October 2025.

Programme

Over the course of two days, participants get an insight through keynote speeches on various perspectives of film education and outreach, as well as sharing and forming ideas work sessions to discuss preselected topics related to film. These sessions will focus on the practical relevance, as well as their potential implementation within the network and future editions of the Autumn Lab. 

The programme includes an exclusive tour to the Deutsche Kinemathek including its film archive. Find the full schedule of the event here.

Venues

SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Berlin

Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin

Contact

For more information, please email autumnlab@deutsche-kinemathek.de. 

The organizing committee of the FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab is composed of Anke Hahn and Jurek Sehrt (Deutsche Kinemathek), and Lisabona Rahman (FIAF Training & Outreach Coordinator), supported by the Deutsche Kinemathek's Education Team members Fabian Fornalski and Milan Bath and the FIAF Secretariat.