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.

Digital Archives Summer School in Potsdam: Registration open until 12 July

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 No20 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

The 2020 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School is postponed until next year

Share your experience of COVID-19

Tales from the Vaults book project: Call for Contributions now closed

Read the new issue of the JFP for free

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New: FIAF Affiliation History Database and Map

On 2 May 2017, the FIAF General Assembly elected a new FIAF Executive Committee. Frédéric Maire succeeds Eric Le Roy as FIAF President.

Take part in the survey! Deadline extended until 22 May

Nikolai Borodachev, the former director general of Gosfilmofond of Russia, died on 11 April 2020 at the age of 71.

UNESCO has just published the Declaration "Turning  the  threat  of  COVID-19  into  an  opportunity  for  greater  support  to documentary heritage", co-signed by the CCAAA.

Film:ReStored_05: Call for Submissions Open until 15 May

Memory Game of Historical FIAF Personalities

Film/AV Collections of FIAF Affiliates Online

2020 FIAF Congress Cancellation Statement

The SEAPAVAA Executive Council and the Vietnam Film Institute have jointly announced the cancellation of the 24th SEAPAVAA Conference and General Assembly, due to take place from 8-12 June 2020 in Da Nang, Vietnam.

New Announcement from FIAF and Filmoteca UNAM about the 2020 FIAF Congress