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>> www.cncinema.abt.ro Arhiva Nationala de Filme (ANF) was established in 1957 as sole institution in Romania that collects, preserves and uses films for non-commercial purposes. Over the years it has been active in finding and identifying films, cataloguing as well as carrying out a series of studies on the history of Romanian cinema. It is a member of FIAF since 1960 and member of ACE since 1996.

 >> www.cinecitta.com  Cinecittà Luce is a public company that works as an operative arm of the Ministry of Culture for the Italian film industry. It is the result of the merging of Cinecittà Holding and Istituto Luce, the latter being the first state film company in Europe, founded in 1924.

>> www.cinematheque.fr  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, and its extensive collection now makes it one of the world's most famous motion picture archives. It is also a place where several generations have discovered the cinema.

>> www.cinetecadibologna.it  The year 2012 was a turning point for the Cineteca di Bologna, almost fifty years after the creation of the Commissione Cinema, the organization that started it all: on January 1 the Cineteca became a foundation. This new organizational form was chosen to make the best use of resources, to seize dynamic work and research opportunities, and to establish the Cineteca as a leading institution in the field of film culture.

>> www.deutsche-kinemathek.de The task of the Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen is to collect, preserve, develop, present and mediate our audiovisual heritage. Since 2006, it remains the sole institution in Europe presenting both media together through its permanent exhibitions on film and television.

>> www.filmi.arhiiv.ee The main task of the Estonian Film Archives, according to the Act of Archives, is to collect, preserve and provide access to the national film, photo and audio heritage. Collecting and preserving film heritage started in 1935. After the II WW governing the archival matters was directed to Moscow. Access to most of the pre-war films was restricted (the first film of Estonian origin was released in 1912).

>> http://filmarchiv.at  The Filmarchiv Austria is the central location for film collections and film documentation in Austria and houses the country’s audiovisual cultural heritage. The diverse collections held within the archive encompass a period of over a hundred years, stretching from the 19th century up to the present. The Filmarchiv Austria holds over 100,000 film prints, 2,000.000 photos and film stills, roughly 25,000 film programmes and countless further items, such as posters, books and documents.

>> www.cinetecamilano.it The Cineteca Italiana was officially founded in Milan in 1947. Its first nucleus was a small stock of cinema masterpieces rescued from destruction in the Thirties and adventurously preserved until after World War II by a group of  young cinéphiles and intellectuals among whom there were the future directors Luigi Comencini and Alberto Lattuada.
 

>> www.ivac.gva.es The Institut Valencià de l’Audiovisual i la Cinematografía Ricardo Muñoz Suay (IVAC) is an autonomous public institution, created in 1998, which is in charge of the development, execution and coordination of the cultural policies of the Valencian Government in the cinematographic and audiovisual areas. This organism concentrates three different areas, the oldest of them is the Valencian Film Archive, created in 1985. The promotion of the audiovisual creation and the yearly organization of the cinema festival "Cinema Jove" are the other two main activities of the IVAC.
 

>> www.kava.fi The Finnish Film Archive was founded in 1957 as a private association. The following year it joined the International Federation of Film Archives, FIAF. In 1979, the archive became a public body operating under the Ministry of Education. On 1 January 2008, the archive's functions were extended to radio and television archiving. A new name was adopted at the same time – National Audiovisual Archive.

>> www.archyvai.lt  The Lithuanian Central State Archive is the biggest archive within the state archival system. The main mission of its activity is collecting and safeguarding paper-based and audiovisual documents for future generations as well as providing permanent public access to its collections. The institution's audiovisual complex consists of film, sound and video recordings as well as photo documents.

>> www.nfa.cz  The Film Archive in Prague was 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.

>> www.filmmuseum.at Österreichisches Filmmuseum (Austrian Film Museum / OeFM) is a specific exhibition space (film as a time-based event, the experience of a performative act), a collection site and archive (film as an artefact, as local and global memory), a research and study centre, as well as a place for public debate and reflection (film as a nodal point of discourse on culture and society).