The National Audiovisual Institute (; or ') is a governmental bureau under the Finnish
Ministry of Education
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responsible for supervising the distribution of audiovisual content (including
video game
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s), advancing
media education in
Finland
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and archiving audiovisual material. The agency is tasked with maintaining and developing an online
content rating system, training independent classifiers and supervising their operation.
The agency was formed in 2014 as a result of a merger between the National Audiovisual Archive (formerly Finnish Film Archive, established 1957) and the
Finnish Board of Film Classification
The Finnish Board of Film Classification (; ) was an official institution of the Finnish Ministry of Education. From 1946 until the end of year 2011, the VET/SFB was responsible for inspecting and rating the content of movies and video games. I ...
and its short-lived successor Centre for Media Education and Audiovisual Media (2012–2014).
The National Audiovisual Institute organizes regular archival film screenings at the Kino Regina cinema, located since 2019 in the
Helsinki Central Library Oodi.
Classification system
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Rating information
Video game content ratings systems
Cultural organisations based in Finland
Film organisations in Finland
Sound archives
Censorship in Finland
Motion picture rating systems
Entertainment rating organizations
Film archives in Europe
2014 establishments in Finland
Archives in Finland
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