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The Filmarchiv Austria in Vienna collects, documents and houses Austria’s audiovisual cultural heritage. The diverse collections held within the archive stretch from the 19th century up to the present.
Österreichisches Filmmuseum (Austrian Film Museum / OeFM) is an exhibition space, a collection site, and archive, a research and study centre, as well as a place for public debate and reflection.
Österreichisches Filmmuseum website
The Cinémathèque Royale archives exhibits and distributes archival films across Europe. It is a member of the International associations of Archives (FIAF, ACE).
Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique website
The Bulgarian National Film Archive founded 1952 collects preserves and restores Bulgarian and global film heritage consisting of over 15,000 film titles plus publications, posters, film stills and documents.
Bulgaria National Film Archive website
The Film Archive in Prague founded in 1943 by the Czech-Moravian Film Centre to protect film materials against war operations. In 1946, it became a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). Having been part of the Czechoslovak film institute, the archive was transformed into the independent National Film Archive (NFA) by the decree of the Minister of Culture in 1992.
Národní Fílmový Archiv website
The Danish Film Institute (Copenhagen) supports, encourages, and conserves film and cinema culture. DFI's participates in the development and production of feature, short and documentary films, including distribution and marketing and managing the national film archive and the cinémathèque.
Det Danske Filminstitut website
The Imperial War Museum founded in 1917 records the story of the Great War (WW I) and the contributions made by the peoples of the British empire.
Impreial War Museums Archives website
The Estonian Film Archives (Tallinn) collects, preserves and provides access to the national film, photo and audio heritage. Collecting and preserving film heritage started in 1935.
The National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) of Helsinki acquires, restores and preserves films and film-related materials, conducts and supports film research. KAVI, a section of the Ministry of Education and Culture, promotes media education, children’s media skills and the development of safe media environment for children in cooperation with other authorities and corporations in the sector.
Kansallinen audiovisuaalinen instituutti website
Archives françaises du film du CNC (Bois d’Arcy), the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC), created in 1969 by the French Minister of Culture, inventories and conserves old films, including nitrate stock.
Ciné-Archives, a non-profit organization created in 1998, preserves and provides access to the French labor movement and the Communist Party’s audiovisual film heritage. The collection consists of films produced since the 1920s by the Communist Party or related organizations, as well as films shot by amateur filmmakers. This singular collection spans almost a century of political and social history, in France and throughout the world. It thus shows the French social and political life along the 20th century, but also the Spanish civil war, WW2, the Cold War, colonial wars in Africa and Asia, travels in the USSR - among many other topics.
The Cinémathèque française was founded in 1936 by Henri Langlois, Georges Franju, Jean Mitry and Paul Auguste Harlé. Over the years it has evolved into a focus for film culture.
Cinèmathéque Française website
The Cinémémoire film archive collection focuses on the audiovisual memory of Marseille, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region and the former French colonies. The collection is mostly made up of home movies.
Since the end of the second world war, the ministries in charge of housing and construction have conducted an audiovisual communication policy. Today, this collection is held by the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the MInistry of Territorial Cohesion and Relations with Local Authorities. The films documented efforts to rebuild its infrastructure: roads, bridges, public buildings, and housing, all reflecting the postwar reconstruction of France.
Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire website
The Federal Republic of Germany maintains, cares for, and makes accessible to the public a growing archive of moving pictures in the Federal Archives (Bundesarchiv-Filmarchiv) in Berlin.
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum housed in Frankfurt, founded in 1949, is the oldest and largest cinematic institution in Germany.
Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum website
The archive of the German Historical Museum (Berlin) holds film from various periods and genres focusing on local and international productions dealing with German history. Most copies are original-language versions on 16 or 35mm-material. The cinema regularly presents copies from its own collection and makes some of its collection available for loan.
Deutsches Historisches Museum website
The Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum for Film and Television, founded in 2006, collects, preserves, develops, presents and mediates German audiovisual heritage. It presents media through permanent exhibitions on film and television.
The Landesfilmsammlung Baden-Wuerttemberg (LFS) established in 1998 as the film archive of the federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg in Germany collects and archives films from and about Baden-Wuerttemberg.
The Friedrich-Wilhelm-Murnau-Foundation founded in 1966 preserves, cares for, and makes accessible, the German heritage of film. The collection includes film prints and materials as well as corresponding rights from the early days of motion pictures up to the 1960s. The collection includes silent films, sound films, commercials, documentaries and other cultural films. The foundation restores, preserves and digitizes its holdings which include the works of world-famous directors such as Fritz Lang, Ernst Lubitsch, and F.W. Murnau.
F.W, Murnau Foundation website
The Greek Film Archive collaborates with Athens University and Panteion University on graduate and post graduate educational projects. The Greek Film Archive organises screenings and festivals in cooperation with the Greek Film Center and the Thessaloniki Film Festival.
The Association of Film Critics founded the Greek Film Archive in 1950, then In 1963, a royall decree estblished the “Film Archives of Greece – Greek Film Archive” Foundation. The archive has been a full member since 1963 of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF).
Tainiothiki tis Ellados website
The Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film Institute (MaNDA) founded in 2010 is the successor of the former Hungarian National Film Archive, a public collection. MaNDA' s major tasks are to record the values of the Hungarian cultural heritage.
Magyar Nemzeti Digitális Archívum és Filmintézet website
The Cineteca Nazionale (National Film Archive) founded in the 1930s in Rome, preserves Italy’s cinematic heritage. The original collection was established in the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia as a teaching aid.
The Cineteca Italiana also known as Cineteca Milano, founded in 1947 in Milan, was initially a small stock of cinema masterpieces rescued from destruction in the 19430s and preserved until after World War II by cinéphiles and intellectuals. Among this group were were future directors Luigi Comencini and Alberto Lattuada.
Fondazione Cineteca Italiano website
Cinecittà Luce founded in 1924 in Rome is a public archive offered by Italian film industry through the Ministry of Culture.
The Archivio Audiovisivo del Movimento Operaio E Democratico (AAMOD) was established in Rome in 1979. Most of the film and photography depicts contemporary history beginning from the end of WW II.
Audiovisual Archive Foundation of the Workers’ and Democratic Movement website
The Cineteca di Bologna preserves and restores the cinematographic heritage to make it usable today and allow its future transmission.
The Cineteca del Friuli, founded in 1977, is one of five major Italian film libraries. In 1989, It joined the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF). It currently includes films in 35mm and 16mm, fiction, newsreels and documentaries.
La Cineteca del Friuli Website
The Museo Nazionale del Cinema (or National Cinema Museum) founded in 2000 is hosted within the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, the symbol of the city.
Museo Nazionale del Cinema website
The Lithuanian Central State Archive is the biggest archive collects and safeguards paper-based and audiovisual documents for future generations as well as providing public access to its collections. The institution's audiovisual complex consists of film, sound and video recordings as well as photo documents.
Lietuvos Centrinis Valstybės Archyvas website
Kinoteka na Makedonija founded in 1974 collects, processes, preserves, protects, does research on and presents films and audio-visual materials from the country and abroad.
Kinoteka na Makedonija website
The Arxiu del So i de la Imatge de Mallorca (ASIM) founded in 1999 gathers audiovisual materials related to Mallor, portraying history and heritage of the island.
Arxiu del So i de la Imatge de Mallorca website
The Montenegrin Cinematheque in Podgorica, Montenegro, founded in 2000 collects and preserves films by Montenegrin filmmakers, and films produced in- Montenegro and about- Montenegro. It also collects international productions from around the world and film-related photos, posters, and advertising materials.
The EYE Filmmuseum (The Netherlands) supports Dutch national cinema culture. It manages a collection of films, photographs and film posters, that reflects important aspects of film history.
The National Library of Norway, in Oslo, collects, preserves and restores the Norwegian film heritage and makes it available for research and documentation.
The National Film Archive in Warsaw, Poland was created in 1955. It is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), an association of film archives around the world. The archive cosists of film reels and archival materials such as posters, photos, and scripts.
The Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema founded in the early 1950s is the national film museum of Portugal preserves and screens the Portuguese and the world’s moving image heritage.
Arhiva Nationala de Filme (ANF) established in 1957 in Bucharest, Romania collects, preserves and uses films for non-commercial purposes. Over the years it has been active in finding, identifying and cataloguing films.
Arhiva Nationala de Filme (ANF) website
Jugoslovenska Kinoteka, or National Film Archive, founded in 1949, is the national film library of the Republic Serbia. It consists of a film archives, film museum, library and general services. Jugoslovenska Kinoteka is one of the founders and a permanent member of FIAF (International Federation of Film Archives). It takes part in the activities of FIAF since 1951.
Jugoslovenska Kinoteka website
The Moving Image Archive is a film and video collection of Scotland's history. The archive reflects 20th-century Scottish history, the lives of ordinary Scots across the generations and the achievements of Scottish film-makers in the craft of film production.
National Library of Scotland Moving Image Archive website
The Filmoteca de Catalunya (Barcelona) recovers, conserves, researches and disseminates films and audiovisual works, materials, documents, equipment and any other element of interest to the study of cinema and audiovisual art and Catalan cinema.
FIlmoteca de Catalunya website
Filmoteca Española (Madrid) is the Spanish national film archive under the direction of the Instituto de la Cinematografía y de las Artes Visuales (ICAA) of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports.
The Filmoteca Valenciana founded in 1998 is a public institution in charge of development, execution and coordination of cultural policies of the Valencian Government in the cinematographic and audiovisual areas. The Valencian Film Archive was created in 1985.
Valencian Institute of Culture website
Joan Capdevila Nogués (1921-2012) can be considered one of the most emblematic representatives of Catalan independent cinema. Self-taught and independent; his concerns led him to capture during the Franco regime - through his Bolex Paillard (8mm and 16mm) cameras - much of the geographical, social and cultural reality that surrounded him. The collected films are on European Film Gateway (link above) and Internet Archive (link below)
Joan Capdevila Nogués films at Internet Archive
The Swedish Film Institute founded in 1963 promotes film from idea to finished product, during launch in Sweden and around the world, and by preserving films in our archives.
Svenska FilmInstitutet website
The association Lichtspiel in 2000 took over the responsibility for the threatened cinematographic collection of the Bernese cinema-technician Walter A. Ritschard. Committee members have restored this collection and made it accessible to the public.
Curtis D. Whiting
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