FIAF Cataloguing and Documentation Commission Workshop: "Film-Related Materials in Archives - From Acquisition to Access" 20-21 June 2025 Bologna (MAMbo at the Cineteca di Bologna) Registrations will open on 1 April 2025

Presentation of the course

Photos, posters, press clippings, 3D objects, sheet music and many other materials are collected, catalogued, digitised and made accessible in and by filmarchives. These diverse documents are commonly grouped under the term “film-related materials”. However, each of these types of materials requires a completely different approach in terms of collection, digitization, and also cataloguing, and most of all, requires specialised and trained archivists. In addition, these departments within the film institutions are usually staffed with fewer people than the film departments.

In March 2023, FIAF will join forces with the Cinémathèque française and the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé once again to offer a short training course (in English and French) aimed at professionals in FIAF archives and beyond. The general theme of this specialized course is still "Programming Film Heritage", and will once again be taught by programming experts from the global network of FIAF archives and other distinguished professionals in a relevant field. This 8th edition of the Winter School will take place on-site only, at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé and at the Cinémathèque, on 6 & 7 March 2023, just before the "Toute la mémoire du monde" festival at the Cinémathèque française (8-12 March 2023).

Il Classics Restored Festival si rinnova per una terza edizione che si terrà in Belgio dal 4 al 13 marzo 2022. In programma anche Accattone di Pier Paolo Pasolini, nella versione restaurata dal laboratorio L'Immagine Ritrovata della Cineteca di Bologna.

FIAF, in partnership with the Cinémathèque française and the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, will be hosting the 7th Winter School on Programming Film Heritage in Paris on 28 and 29 March 2022. 

Per la sesta edizione della FIAF Winter School, la FIAF si unisce alla Cinémathèque française e alla Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé per proporre un breve corso di formazione rivolto ai professionisti degli archivi FIAF e non solo. Il tema generale di questo corso di specializzazione sarà "Programmazione del patrimonio cinematografico", e sarà tenuto da professionisti esperti del settore, la maggior parte dei quali attivi come programmatori negli archivi cinematografici affiliati alla FIAF. Data la situazione attuale, questa sesta edizione si svolgerà come un evento online su quattro mezze giornate, giovedì 25 e venerdì 26 febbraio, lunedì 1 e martedì 2 marzo 2020.

2-3 March 2020, Cinémathèque française, Paris

For the fifth year in a row, FIAF and the Cinémathèque française will join forces in the spring of 2020 to offer a short training course aimed primarily at professionals in FIAF archives and beyond.

Conversazione con Rodrigo Mercês (FIAF Technical Commission) sui temi della preservazione, del restauro e della conservazione dei film, e sulla sua attività presso la Cinemateca Brasileira.

There is no way to learn the craft of a film restorer other than by apprenticeship, as no class at university level would reach this goal. As a matter of fact, since 2007 Cineteca di Bologna – in collaboration with FIAF and ACE – has been promoting and hosting the FIAF Film Restoration Summer School, opening its highly specialized state-of-the-art laboratory, L’Immagine Ritrovata, which has been working in the film restoration industry for over 20 years.

Il Cinema Ritrovato has always been an important platform to present archival film and discuss common problems of preservation and restoration. Also L'Immagine Ritrovata is one of our frequent partners in digitization and restoration projects. So obviously Il Cinema Ritrovato DVD Awards are a great opportunity to present the results of our work and maybe exploit a broader audience for it.

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FRED (Film Radio Entertainment & Dialogue) is a multi-channel online radio station targeted at all those who love independent cinema and all those who gravitate around the world of film festivals: filmmakers, film critics, journalists specializing in cinema, film students, festival organizers and film industry workers. FRED Radio joined the 30th edition of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna (Italy) from June 25th to July 2nd, 2016, providing interesting insights and interviews about Festival's main topics on a daily basis.

A Bologna per ritirare il Premio FIAF, i fratelli cineasti belgi Jean-Pierre e Luc Dardenne hanno incontrato il pubblico del Cinema Ritrovato nella Lezione di Cinema di lunedì mattina. A condurre il dialogo Nicola Mazzanti della Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique.

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This year during the festival Il Cinema Ritrovato another great event is taking place in Bologna: the 72nd FIAF Congress (22-28 June 2016), hosted by the Cineteca di Bologna. After more than twenty years, the International Federation of Film Archives, dedicated to the preservation of the world's film heritage since 1938, comes back to Bologna with a unique Symposium program (25-26 June) focusing on one main topic: a new life for cinema's past. A theme that also runs through the entire festival and that has been leading, over the past few years, Cineteca di Bologna activities and projects in collaboration with the laboratory L'Immagine Ritrovata. 

Ci siamo, oggi sabato 25 giugno prende il via la XXX edizione del festival 'Paradiso dei cinefili'!