Photo: Deutsche Kinemathek / Jennifer Borrmann & Franz Frank.

FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab

21 and 22 October 2025, Berlin

FIAF and the Deutsche Kinemathek are mounting the first FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab in Berlin. Immediately before the film heritage festival Film Restored, film education stakeholders and FIAF members will meet to discuss film education and the future set-up of this collaborative network meeting.

During the annual FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab, the present and future of education as well as outreach in the field of film heritage will be considered: The lab will engage with diverse concepts and perspectives of film education, exemplary outreach and education programmes will be presented and examples will be tested in practice. In addition, field- and topic-specific but also social challenges can be addressed in the network, solutions or even joint measures and projects can be developed. In this way, film heritage related education shall be treated and strengthened in many dimensions (aesthetically, historically, media-critically, artistic-creatively, productive-practically).

The Autumn Lab is intended to offer film archives, cinematheques and film museums, as well as committed specialists, a regularly recurring platform for exchange, knowledge transfer and networking. The FIAF Autumn Lab is conceived as a joint and collaborative structure in which FIAF member institutions – but also beyond – are invited to exchange ideas and help shape future contents, methods and emphases of educational work. 

The FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab 2025 is made possible with the generous support of the Arbeitskreis selbständiger Kultur-Institute e.V. (Aski).

Dates

Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 October 2025.

Programme

The inaugural edition 2025 will be understood as a constitutive meeting at which participants will jointly work out central topics and possible fields of work for the upcoming editions. After introductory keynote speeches outlining different perspectives on film education, institutional educational work and outreach, participants will work together in groups and in plenary sessions.

A more detailed programme, including topics and the names of the invited speakers, will be available by 20 August 2025.

Note that the course will be conducted in English.

Venues

SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, Berlin

Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen, Berlin

Costs

The FIAF Autumn Lab 2025 is designed as a kick-off and constitutional meeting and is therefore free of charge. Travelling expenses and accommodation must be covered by the participants themselves. Partial catering (drinks and snacks) will be provided on the days of the event.

Conditions of participation

The Autumn Lab is intended to foster a sustainable long-term network and exchange between FIAF members. In addition, independent stakeholders in film education and outreach are seen as an important part of the meeting.

Experience in the field of film education and active participation in expert meetings and working groups are prerequisites for participation. Applicants' experiences are gathered in advance and form part of the selection process.

With the aim of ensuring the best possible anchoring within FIAF, the majority of places are reserved for educational staff members and representatives of FIAF-affiliated institutions.

Registration

Applications for registration will open on 20 August 2025 via an online form on the FIAF website, and will close on 3 September. For reasons of participant comfort and interactivity between participants and speakers, it has been decided to limit the number of participants. The selection will be made by the organizers on the basis of the information contained in the application form. The selection of participants will be announced around 10 September.

Contact

For more information, please email autumnlab@deutsche-kinemathek.de. 

The organizing committee of the FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab is composed of Anke Hahn and Jurek Sehrt (Deutsche Kinemathek), and Lisabona Rahman (FIAF Training & Outreach Coordinator).