News Archive

The new round of funding is open to all members of the FIAF community until 31 October.

It is with great sadness that FIAF learned of the passing of the legendary Swiss-French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, who received a FIAF Award in 2019.

The 2022 Early film festival in Vilnius, organized by Pirmoji Banga, will host a conference on "Film Heritage Without Borders" on 16-17 September. The event will be streamed online.

Thierry Frémaux, director of the Lyon-based Lumière Institute and Cannes International Film Festival, is special guest at the forthcoming Budapest Classics Film Marathon, which will shine a spotlight on the work of the Lumière Institute. The full programme is available online.

The Deutsche Kinemathek has just issued a press release about its forthcoming Film Restored – The Film Heritage Festival (21-25 September) in Berlin. Applications for accreditation will be accepted until 12 September.

FIAF has written to the Ukranian authorities regardng the recent annoucement of the 'reorganization' of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre (Kyiv).

Registration is now open for the 2022 Virtual SARBICA Symposium on the theme "Preservation & Sustainability: Two Sides Of The Same Coin?" that will take place on 15-17 November 2022.

The AMIA Conference Committee invites proposal submissions for sessions, posters, and workshops for the AMIA Annual Conference to be held December 7-9, 2022 in Pittsburgh, PA. Submission deadline: 15 August.

Registrations for SEAPAVAA’s virtual 2022 Conference, from 19 – 21 July 2022, are open until 12 July. Note that this event is free of charge but places are limited.

The new issue of the FIAF Bulletin Online is out! You can read it on our online platform or download it.

The FIAF Commissions have been developing a workshop series that will begin in the autumn of 2022. They will be covering a wide range of topics discussed in FIAF. They are planned as online events and will be conducted in English. The first four workshops have been announced.

The Third Edition of the ACE's A Season of Classic Films Kicks Off with Face to Face (Greece, 1966) and Blue 9 (Yugoslavia, 1950) on 9 and 10 June. Both online screenings offer worldwide access with English subtitles.

The video recordings of the 2022 FIAF Symposium in Budapest are now accessivle to all on the FIAF website.

Karen Jones, former Head of Documentation at the Danish Film Museum, Vice-President of the FIAF Documentation Commission, and first Editor of FIAF’s Periodicals Indexing Project, was elected FIAF Honorary Member by the General Assembly in Budapest.

Three film heritage institution in Armenia, Estonia, and France recently applied for FIAF affiliaiton and were admitted as FIAF Associates by the FIAF Executive Committee at its meeting in Budapest on 23 April 2022.

The full schedule of the 7th Eye International Conference, to take place in Amsterdam from 29-31 May 2022, is now available and registration is open.

The April 2022 issue of the Journal of Film Preservation is out and can be read on the Calameo platform for free. The paper version has also been shipped to FIAF affiliates and JFP subscribers.

The second edition of this summer school supported by FIAF will take place from 5-9 September in Potsdam. Applications are now open and FIAF scholarships are available.

FIAF announces various events and publications to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Periodicals Indexing Project (P.I.P.) throughout 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.

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 complementary conferences in Switzerland and France will be celebrating the centenary of 9.5mm and Pathé-Baby at the end of 2022. Their Call for Papers are now open.

FIAF has issued a public statement following the latest dramatic events 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.

The list of all selected participants is 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.

The 7th FIAF Winter School on Programming Film Heritage will take place in Paris over two days, on 28 & 29 March 2022. Registrations are now open.

Registrations for the 2022 FIAF Congress are now open! Fill in and submit the online form by 10 April.

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

The submission deadline for the Symposium of the 2022 FIAF Congress has been extended to 13 January 2022.

The website of the 2022 FIAF Congress, due to take place in Budapest from 24-29 April 2022, is now available. Registrations will open in January.

It is with immense sadness that we announce the passing of our colleague and friend Laurent Bismuth, until recently Head of the Cataloguing and Documentation Department at the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC) in Bois d’Arcy, France, and a member of the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission.

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.

On 15 October 2021, FIAF legend Jacques Ledoux would have been 100. A new online exhibition marks the centenary of his birth.

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 2021 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage celebrations on the dedicated CCAAA webpage now!

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 for BAVASS 2021 are now closed. The successful applicants will be notified shortly.

Registration for this FIAF-Supported training event to be held in Potsdam, Germany, from 6-10 September 2021, is open until 15 July. Participation can be online or in person.

No fewer than 13 FIAF affiliates were involved in the restored films selected for this year's Cannes Classics, as announced by the Festival de Cannes on 25 June.

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).

The video recordings of the presentations of the 6th FIAF Winter School on Programming Film Heritage can now be accessed online.

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 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.

FIAF, in partnership with INA and the French diplomatic network in Latin America, will hold a free online seminar on the management, conservation and dissemination of film heritage for institutions in the Southern Cone region and the Andean countries, on 11-12 & 15-16 March 2021.

The FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission offers a rare opportunity for cataloguers to hone their skills under the expert guidance of the FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission, by holding the first in a series of online masterclasses on cataloguing different aspects of cinematographic works, on 27-28 April 2021.

The CDC, which is planning to modernize the Treasures from the Film Archives database, is currently looking for a software developer to design and implement a new system.

The 25th Conference will now be held virtually from 23 – 25 June 2021, while the 25th General Assembly will now be held electronically from 3 – 31 May 2021.

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.

The 6th FIAF Winter School on Programming Film Heritage will take place online over four half days, on 25-26 February and 1-2 March 2021. Note that the new deadline for registration applications is Wednesday 27 January.

FIAF, in partnership with the Jan de Vaal Fund, invites film historians to submit proposals for thematic chapters as part of a forthcoming book on the 82-year history of our Federation. Proposal submission deadline: 31 March 2021.

FIAF, in partnership with the Jan de Vaal Fund, invites film historians to submit proposals for thematic chapters as part of a forthcoming book on the 82-year history of our Federation. Proposal submission deadline: 31 March 2021.

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

The Report on the 2017 FIAF Statistical Survey is now available. provides a brief analysis of some of the key data collected and serves as a snapshot of the film archiving field in 2016, as reported by 130 FIAF affiliates in 2017.

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.

On 4 November 2020, during the closing night of the 44th São Paulo International Film Festival , the 2020 FIAF Award was presented to Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles. Check the video of the event!

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.

Short video messages celebrating the Cinemateca and its staff have been recorded by many colleagues in the FIAF community around the world. They will be screened throughout the São Paulo International Film Festival (22 October - 4 November). We are also making them available on the FIAF website.

The FIAF Executive Committee, after consulting the Bangladesh Film Archive, has come to the unanimous conclusion that it will not be possible to hold an in-person Congress in Dhaka in March 2021 as initially planned.

Registrations are now open for the 2020 Online International Symposium on "Prevention and Management of Natural and Human Disasters in Film Archives" held by FIAF and the Filmoteca UNAM from 28 September-1 October 2020.

Share your celebrations on the dedicated CCAAA webpage!

The Film Heritage Foundation and FIAF are partnering once more to offer a sixth Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India (FPRWI 2020), this time online, in September. Registrations are now open!

FIAF has announced that the recipient of its 2020 FIAF Award is Brazilian filmmaker Walter Salles. He follows Jean-Luc Godard, to whom the award was presented during the 75th FIAF Congress in Lausanne in April 2019.

FIAF's PACC has written a few general recommendations about how to handle incoming films and other materials in the age of coronavirus.

The Cataloguing and Documentation Commission has just released a new text entitled "Cataloguing Practices in the Age of Linked Open Data: Wikidata and Wikibase for Film Archives", by Adelheid Heftberger and Paul Duchesne.

Due the international health crisis caused by COVID-19, we regret announcing that the 2020 FIAF Film Restoration Summer School has been postponed until 2021. Selected participants will be kept informed of any upcoming news.

FIAF has just launched a new plaftorm allowing you to share your experience of, and your thoughts about, the COVID-19 crisis and its current and future impact on the film archiving field.

FIAF and TECHNÈS have just launched a Call for Contributions for their forthcoming book Tales from the Vaults: An Illustrated History of Film Technology around the World. The deadline for proposals (in English or French) is 15 July.

The new issue of the Journal of Film Preservation is out and exceptionally available in electronic form to all for free until 30 November. The paper version will be available in the next two weeks.

FIAF is launching a new exciting historical resource on its website - a comprenhensive database and map about the history of FIAF affiliates, which is the result of several years of research in FIAF's Historical Archive.

Following the cancellation of the FIAF Executive Committee meeting due to take place in Mexico City on 19-20 April 2020, the meeting has been rescheduled on 12 and 13 May and will take place via videoconferencing.

Take part in the new survey of this FIAF-endorsed Project. New extended deadline: 22 May 2020.

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.

The deadline for the call for submissions for the fifth edition of the film heritage festival Film:ReStored, to take place in Berlin from 27 October  – 1 November 2020, has been extended to 15 May.

Play the new online Memory game of FIAF historical personalities here!