The 7th edition of Eye’s annual public lectures series This is Film! Film Heritage in Practice is the first one to be available online.

The Call for Papers for a 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 open.

Applications now closed

Digital Archives Summer School in Potsdam: Registration for online participation open until 15 August

13 FIAF affiliates involved in the selected restored films

Archives, film libraries, producers, distributors and studios from all over the world are invited to submit their restored films by 2 July.

The ACE presents four more new restorations, this time from the Balkans, as part of its Season of Classic Films.

Registration is now open for SEAPAVAA's virtual 25th Conference on 23-25 June 2021. The registration details, programme & schedule, and other information regarding the virtual conference are available on SEAPAVAA's conference website.

Eye Filmmuseum is pleased to announce that the application for its traineeship programme “Film Restoration” and “Film Collection” is now open. Application deadline is 15 June.

From 6-15 June, the Jugoslovenska kinoteka will host the 23rd edition of its Nitrate Film Festival in Belgrade.

The fifth edition of No Time to Wait, a free three-day conference focused on open media, open standards, and digital audiovisual preservation conference, has been announced. It will take place on 8-10 December 2021 and will be hosted by the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision in Hilversum.

The ACE announces two new free online worldwide screenings:  La piel quemada (28 May – 3 June) and Der Kampf ums Matterhorn (28 May – 4 June).

Videos of all the presentations now available

All colleagues from the FIAF network are invited to propose new restorations for the screening programme, as well as scholarly lectures, reports on new discoveries, project ideas, and plans for panel discussions.

The Call for Presentations is open until 28 May.

The Albanian National Film Archive offers free online access to the drama The Death of a Horse (Vdekja e Kalit) on its YouTube channel between 19 and 26 May. This is a world premiere of the new digital restoration of the film, as part of ACE’s A Season of Classic Films.

The National Film Institute Hungary – Film Archive and the ACE announce two free online worldwide screenings of the animation film Bubble Bath (Habfürdő), with French and English subtitles, on 15-16 May.

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 call for proposals is  now open until 15 May 2021.

Gyöngyi Balogh, archivist at the Hungarian Film Archive since the early 1980s and a renowned expert on silent film, has just died aged 70.

Digitised from the vaults of the IFI Irish Film Archive, the 1958 film She Didn’t Say No! will be free to view worldwide on the IFI Player and via the IFI Player suite of apps between 15 and 22 April, as part of the ACE's Season of Classic Films.

From April to June, the Národní filmový archiv, Prague, will offer free online access to seven silent films with contemporary music, as part of the ACE's Season of Classic Films.

It is with great sadness that many in the FIAF community have learned of the passing of the French film director and President of the Institut Lumière Bertrand Tavernier.

The call for applications is open for INA’s annual training programme FRAME in partnership with FIAT/IFTA (International Federation of Television Archives) and EBU Academy (European Broadcasting Union). The next session will take place online from 3-4 and 7-9 June 2021.

Cataloguing Masterclass:
Cataloguing Newsreels and Cinemagazines

Software Development Request for Proposals (New deadline: 3 May 2021)

Boris Nonevski, former director of the Cinematheque of North Macedonia, passed away at the end January.

The film Sanz y el secreto de su arte (1918, dir. M. Thous and F. Sanz, 65’, with English subtitles) will be screened on Friday 5 February at 18:00 CET with live music, in the frame of ACE’s Season of Classic Films.

Catherine A. Surowiec pays tribute to Markku Salmi, filmographer and researcher, who worked at the British Film Institute from 1975 to 2003, and passed away in late October 2020.

Applications for registration are now closed.

FIAF History Book

Call for Book Chapter Contributions now open

SEAPAVAA announces the dates and theme of its 2021 Conference and General Assembly.

FIAF Bulletin Online No21 is out

Ed Stratmann, a major figure in the world of film preservation, and a long-time staff member of the George Eastman Museum, has passed away.

Film historian and former Cinémathèque québécoise curator Pierre Véronneau has died at the age of 74.

The virtual screening, supported by the ACE, will be freely-accessible worldwide via Yugoslovenska Kinoteka's YouTube channel.

Walter Salles presented with the 2020 FIAF Award in São Paulo

Inga Adolfsson, a long-serving employee of the Swedish Film Institute's film archive, has passed away at the age of 81.

On the occasion of the 2020 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the Association des Cinémathèques Européennes (ACE) has published a new curated catalogue of European classic films.

Video messages celebrating the Cinemateca Brasileira

Announcement about the 2021 FIAF Congress

Steven Ricci, film archivist, historian and educator, passed away on 16 October 2020 in Los Angeles. He played an active role in FIAF between 1993 and 2003.

Presentations available on YouTube

Walter Salles will receive the 2020 FIAF Award

Handling Incoming Materials in Film Archives in the Age of Coronavirus

Cataloguing Practices in the Age of Linked Open Data - A new CDC resource