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A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically, a cinematheque has at least one motion picture theatre, which offers screenings of its collections and other international films. Filmfestival2009

History

From the first cinema screenings until 1930, several attempts to establish film archives were initiated in Europe, the USA and Russia. As early as 1898, the photographer and cameraman

Bolesław Matuszewski Bolesław Matuszewski (August 19, 1856 Pińczów, – c.1943 or 1944; in French texts Boleslas Matuszewski) - Polish businessman, photographer and cameraman, pioneer of cinematography and documentary film. Biography He was born in 1856 in Piń ...

evoked the idea of a film archive. "It is a matter of giving this perhaps privileged source of history the same authority, the same official existence, the same access as to other archives already known". The "Archives of the Planet” (Les Archives de la planète) were established by Albert Kahn, between 1912 and 1931. Military film archives were also created in France, Germany and Great Britain after the First World War. The cinematheque of the city of Paris, for educational purposes, was created in 1925. However, it was not until the 1930s and the awareness of the destruction of films at the time of the transition to sound movies that the first film archives emerged. Some of the first formal film archives were created: in Stockholm in 1933, the

Reichsfilmarchiv The Reichsfilmarchiv ("Reich Film Archive") was the state film archive of the Germany of the Third Reich. It was first German national film archive. It was opened in 1935, and based in Berlin. It ceased to exist in 1945, when its film stock was eith ...

in Berlin in 1934, the

National Film Library The BFI National Archive is a department of the British Film Institute, and one of the largest film archives in the world. It was founded as the National Film Library in 1935; its first curator was Ernest Lindgren. In 1955, its name became the N ...

in London and the Film Library at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1935, the Cinémathèque française in Paris created in 1936. In 1938, the International Federation of Film Archives was created, bringing together institutions devoted to cinematographic heritage. On 27 October 1980, the General Conference of UNESCO adopted the "Recommendation for the Safeguarding and Preservation of Moving Images" which recognizes the need to preserve and provide access to cinematographic heritage. In 1991, the Association of European Cinematheques (ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes) was established.

Africa

Morocco * Tangier Cinematheque at Cinema Rif in Tangier

America

;; Canada * Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal * The Cinematheque in Vancouver * TIFF Cinematheque in Toronto * Cinematheque Waterloo in

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* Winnipeg Film Group's Cinematheque in Winnipeg ;; United States of America * UCLA Film and Television Archive in Los Angeles *

American Cinematheque The American Cinematheque is an independent, nonprofit cultural organization in Los Angeles, California, United States dedicated exclusively to the public presentation of the moving image in all its forms. The Cinematheque was created in 1981 as ...

in Los Angeles * San Francisco Cinematheque in San Francisco * Gene Siskel Film Center in Chicago *

Cleveland Cinematheque The Cleveland Cinematheque is an alternative film theatre located in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded in 1984, it is a part of the Cleveland Institute of Art The Cleveland Institute of Art, previously Cleveland School of Art, is a private college focuse ...

in Cleveland * University of Virginia Cinematheque in Charlottesville
Cinematheque
at University of Wisconsin–Madison ;;Mexico * Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City * Filmoteca de la UNAM in Mexico City ; Other countries in America *

Cinemateca Uruguaya Cinemateca Uruguaya (''Uruguayan Cinematheque'') is a non-profit cinematheque in Montevideo, Uruguay, established in 1952, that aims to support the cultural development of cinema, and of art in general. Since its inception, it has belonged to the ...

Montevideo Montevideo () is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 1,319,108 (about one-third of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

, Uruguay *

Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela The Fundación Cinemateca Nacional de Venezuela (Spanish: ''Foundation National Cinematheque of Venezuela'') is a Venezuelan public institution founded on May 4, 1966 by Margot Benacerraf and since then is dedicated to presenting classics of worl ...

Caracas Caracas (, ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas, abbreviated as CCS, is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the ...

, Venezuela * Cinemateca Brasileira in São Paulo, Brazil * Filmoteca

PUCP Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ( es, link=no, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 with the support and approval of the Catholic Church, being the oldest private ...

in Lima,

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Asia

;; China *

China Film Archive The China Film Archive (CFA) is a Chinese film archive located in Beijing that is owned and operated by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party. It was founded to preserve existing Chinese films and restore ‘lost’ films ...

in Beijing ;; Indonesia * Sinematek Indonesia in

Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...

;; Iran * Tehran Cinematheque in Tehran
Pardis Gholhak Cinematheque
in Tehran ;; Israel *

Jerusalem Cinematheque The Jerusalem Cinematheque is a cinematheque and film archive in Jerusalem. History The Jerusalem Cinematheque was founded in 1973 by Lia van Leer. It was originally located in Beit Agron in the center of Jerusalem. A new building overlooking the ...

in Jerusalem * Tel Aviv Cinematheque in Tel Aviv *

Haifa Cinematheque Haifa Cinematheque is a cinematheque located in Haifa at the Auditorium of Haifa in the Carmel Cente. History Haifa Cinematheque was established by Lia Van Leer in the early 1950s together with her husband Wim. Initially the Van Leers held cine ...

in Haifa * Herzliya Cinematheque in Herzliya *

Holon Cinematheque Holon ( he, חוֹלוֹן ) is a city on the central coastal strip of Israel, south of Tel Aviv. Holon is part of the metropolitan Gush Dan area. In it had a population of . Holon has the second-largest industry (manufacturing), industrial zon ...

Holon Holon ( he, חוֹלוֹן ) is a city on the central coastal strip of Israel, south of Tel Aviv. Holon is part of the metropolitan Gush Dan area. In it had a population of . Holon has the second-largest industrial zone in Israel, after Haifa. ...

Sderot Cinematheque The Sderot Cinematheque is a film archive operating in Sderot, Israel since December 1999. The Cinematheque was founded in cooperation between Sapir Academic College (thanks to Professor Haim Bereshit, the manager of the Media (communication), Me ...

in Sderot * Rosh Pina Cinematheque in Rosh Pinna ;; Singapore *

Asian Film Archive The Asian Film Archive (AFA) is a non-governmental organisation in Singapore that preserves the film heritage of Asian Cinema. The archive is located at the National Library Building along Victoria Street, a five-minute walk from Bugis MRT station ...

in Singapore ;; South Korea * Korean Film Archive in Seoul *

Cinematheque Busan A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library (bibliothèque in French), a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typica ...

in Busan ;; Vietnam *

Hanoi Cinematheque Hanoi or Ha Noi ( or ; vi, Hà Nội ) is the capital and second-largest city of Vietnam. It covers an area of . It consists of 12 urban districts, one district-leveled town and 17 rural districts. Located within the Red River Delta, Hanoi is ...

in Hanoi

Australia

Australian Cinémathèque Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Aus ...

in the

Queensland Gallery of Modern Art The Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA) is an art museum located within the Queensland Cultural Centre in the South Bank precinct of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The gallery is part of QAGOMA. GOMA, which opened on 2 December 2006, is the largest ...

, Brisbane, Queensland * Melbourne Cinematheque in Melbourne, Victoria
Adelaide Cinémathèque
in th
Mercury Cinema
Adelaide, South Australia

Europe

* ACE - Association des Cinémathèques Européennes, an affiliation of 49 national and regional European cinematheques. ;; Armenia *

Armenian National Cinematheque The Armenian National Cinematheque () is a film archive located in Yerevan, Armenia. History The archive was founded in 1991, by Garegin Zakoyan, the head of the Film and Television department of the Art Institute of the Armenian National Acade ...

in Yerevan ;; Belgium *Cinémathèque royale de Belgique in Brussels ;; Bulgaria *

Bulgarian National Film Archive The Bulgarian National Film Archive ( bg, Българска Национална Филмотека), also known as the Bulgarian Cinematheque, is an organization formed to acquire, restore, preserve, and store film and film-related archival art ...

(Българска Национална Филмотека) in Sofia ;; Czech Republic *

Národní filmový archiv The National Film Archive (, abb. NFA) is a film archive located in Prague, Czech Republic. It was established in 1943 (From 1943 to 1945 known as Filmový archiv, from 1945 to 1989 Československý filmový ústav, then from 1990 to 1992 Český f ...

in Prague (and its Ponrepo cinema) ;; Denmark * Cinemateket in Copenhagen ;; France * Cinémathèque Française in Paris *

Cinémathèque de Bretagne The Cinémathèque de Bretagne (in Breton: ''Gwarez filmoù'') is an associative film archive created in 1986 in Ploërmel by Mathilde Valverde and André Colleu, and headquartered in Brest, France. Its aim is to preserve and disseminate the Breton ...

in Brest * ;; Germany *

Deutsche Kinemathek Die Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen is a major German film archive located in Berlin. History The Deutsche Kinemathek opened in 1963. Until the opening of a permanent display in the Museum of Film and Television Berlin (Mu ...

in Berlin, * DFF Deutsches Filmnstitut & Filmmuseum in Frankfurt *

Filmmuseum Potsdam Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in ...

Institut der Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam * Film Museum München in Munich *

Filmmuseum der Landeshauptstadt Düsseldor Eye Filmmuseum is a film archive, museum, and cinema in Amsterdam that preserves and presents both Dutch and foreign films screened in the Netherlands. Location and history Eye Filmmuseum is located in the Overhoeks neighborhood of Amsterdam in t ...

f in Düsseldorf ;; Italy * Cineteca Nazionale in Rome * Cineteca Italiana in Milan * Cineteca di Bologna in Bologna ;; Luxembourg * Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg in Luxembourg City ;; Norway * Cinemateket in Oslo * Cinemateket in Trondheim ;; Poland *Iluzjon - Film Art Museum in Warsaw ;; Portugal *

Cinemateca Portuguesa Cinemateca Portuguesa is a film archive located in Lisbon. It was established in 1948. The Cinemateca Portuguesa provides film festivals, film screenings, presentations, a museum exhibition, a bookshop, and a restaurant. It is located in Rua Bar ...

Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grande Lisboa, Lisbon's urban area extends beyond the city's administr ...

;; Romania
Arhiva Nationala de Filme - Cinemateca
in Bucharest ;; Serbia *

Yugoslav Film Archive The Yugoslav Film Archive ( sr, Југословенска кинотека / Jugoslovenska kinoteka) is a film archive located in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. Founded in 1949, it is a founding member of the International Federation of Film Ar ...

Belgrade Belgrade ( , ;, ; Names of European cities in different languages: B, names in other languages) is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Serbia, largest city in Serbia. It is located at the confluence of the Sava and Danube rivers a ...

;; Slovenia *

Slovenska kinoteka Slovak may refer to: * Something from, related to, or belonging to Slovakia (''Slovenská republika'') * Slovaks, a Western Slavic ethnic group * Slovak language, an Indo-European language that belongs to the West Slavic languages * Slovak, Arkan ...

in Ljubljana ;; Spain *

Filmoteca de Catalunya The Filmoteca de Catalunya is a film archive located in Catalunya, Spain, aiming at the preservation of film and the dissemination of audiovisual and film culture. The head office and public rooms (cinemas, exhibition rooms, library) are located ...

in Barcelona *

Filmoteca Española The Filmoteca Española (Spanish Cinemathèque) is an official institution of the Spanish Ministry of Culture. Its objective is to restore, investigate and conserve the film heritage of Spain and its diffusion. Sites Its cinema where films are ...

in Madrid ;; Sweden * Cinemateket in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

;; Ukraine * Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre in Kyiv ;; United Kingdom * British Film Institute in London ;; Switzerland * Cinémathèque suisse in Lausanne

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