Three New FIAF Associates

7th Eye International Conference

29 – 31 May 2022

Programme and Regisration

Issue #106 of the Journal of Film Preservation is out!

Digital Archives Summer School 2022

Applications now open and FIAF scholarships available

The 2022 Virtual SARBICA Symposium on the theme "Preservation & Sustainability: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?" will take place on 15-17 November 2022. The Call for papers is open until 31 May 2022.

 Happy Birthday P.I.P.!

FIAF Internship Fund

Next round of funding open in October 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.

The 7th edition of Film Restored – The Film Heritage Festival, Berlin, will take place in Berlin from 21-25 September 2022. The call for submissions is open until 29 April.

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 Conferences on Pathé Baby and 9.5mm in 2022

FIAF Statement about the Situation in Ukraine

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.

2022 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School in Bologna

List of selected participants 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.

Registrations are now closed.

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

Symposium of the 2022 FIAF Congress

The call for papers is now closed.

The SEAPAVAA Executive Council has anounced that SEAPAVAA’s 26th General Assembly will be held from 2-31 May 2022, and SEAPAVAA’s 26th Conference from 19 – 21 July 2022. In the current context, it was decided that both events would be take place electronically.

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Photo Galleries

Laurent Bismuth (1965-2021)

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.

Jacques Ledoux and FIAF

An Online Exhibition

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!

Share your celebrations on the CCAAA website (even after the event)

The full programme of this year's Budapest Classics Film Marathon (21-26 September 2021) is now available on the website of the National Film Institute Hungary.

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.

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 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

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.

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.