The 2019 FIAT/IFTA World Conference – titled ‘Champions of Value and Trust. AV Archives in the all-media world‘ will take place in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from 22-25 October. The Call for Papers is open until 11 April.

Applications should be submitted no later than midnight EST on Thursday, January 31, 2019

Registrations are now closed.

3-5 October 2019, Hilversum, Netherlands

Submissions are open for the 2019 competition and FOCAL welcome entries from the whole spectrum of production, restoration and preservation spheres. Early bird submission rates are available until 31 December 2018. 

The Call for Presentations on the theme "Memory, History, and Archives" is open until 11 January 2019.

The full text of the 2018 FIAF recipient's acceptance speech is now available here.

2018 FIAF Award

To celebrate FIAF's 80th anniversary and the 2018 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, we are pleased to announce the completion of the digitization of the audio-recordings of FIAF meetings and the launch of their online access.

2019 FIAF Symposium

New Deadline for the Call for Papers

The 28th annual meeting of INEDITS will take place in Annecy, France, from 22-25 November 2018. As well as bringing members together, this year the meeting will focus on amateur films and travel, and examine the place of animated films in our collections.

The call for papers for this symposium is now open. Send your proposal by 23 November.

The call for papers is now available. Deadline for proposals: 30 November.

Chicca Bergonzi (Cinémathèque Suisse), Oliver Hanley (Filmuniversität Babelsberg – and formerly a PACC Corresponding Member), and Matěj Strnad (Národní filmový archiv) have been appointed members of the Programming and Access to Collections Commission.

The IFI Irish Film Archive have made it to the finalists of the DPC’s Digital Preservation Awards, in the category Safeguarding the Digital Legacy.

Josetxo Cerdán Los Arcos is the new Director of the Filmoteca Española. He will start work in September.

The second Budapest Classics Film Marathon, hosted by the Hungarian National Film Archive, will take place from 4-9 September.

Deux nouveaux ateliers pour archivistes francophones

Registrations are now closed.

The Digital Statement

Part I

Registrations are now closed.

FIAF has three new Honorary Members!

The FIAF community welcomes two new Associates: Fundación Cinemateca Nacional in Venezuela, and the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage in Switzerland. That brings the number of FIAF affiliates to 164.

Vacancy at the FIAF Secretariat

The Madrid Project Database

2018 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School in Bologna

Admission is free but places are limited. Register by 11 May 2018

New deadline for the Call for Papers: 15 December 2017.

2018 Programming Winter School

Registration is now closed.

The Austrian experimental filmmaker was presented with the medal during a lecture he gave at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna on 16 January 2018.

Rachael Stoeltje, FIAF's representative on the CCAAA's Board, has taken over as Chair of the CCAAA for the next two years.

A new FIAF logo has been introduced to celebrate our Federation's 80th anniversary. You can download it here.

2019 Christian Dimitriu Fund

How to apply?

The new deadline for the submission of papers for the 2018 Conference is 15 December.