Cinematheque

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Film reels at the Cinemateca Portuguesa, in Portugal

Main facade of the head office, Bulgarian National Film Archive (Българска Национална Филмотека)

A cinematheque is a film archive with small cinemas that screens particularly classic and art-house films.^[1]

History

In 1935 Henri Langlois and Georges Franju founded a film club ("Cercle du cinéma") to show old films from which originated the Cinémathèque Française in 1936.

The idea to archive old films was by no means self-evident at the time. Langlois was able to save many films the companies had intended to throw away. In 1933, the British Film Institute was founded in London. In 1938 Henri Storck, André Thirifays and Pierre Vermeylen founded the Cinémathèque Royale de Belgique in Belgium. Also in 1938, the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) was founded in Paris.^[2]

The Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal

Broadway Cinematheque, Yaumatei

Cinémathèque royale de Belgique in Brussels, Belgium^[3]
Cinémathèque de la Ville de Luxembourg in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg^[4]
Bulgarian National Film Archive (Българска Национална Филмотека) in Sofia, Bulgaria
Cinémathèque Française in Paris, France
Slovenska kinoteka in Ljubljana, Slovenia
Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin, Germany
Cineteca di Bologna in Bologna, Italy
Cinemateca Portuguesa in Lisbon, Portugal
Yugoslav Film Archive in Belgrade, Serbia
Filmoteca Española in Madrid, Spain
Cinemateket in Stockholm, Sweden
Cinemateket in Oslo, Norway
Cinemateket in Copenhagen, Denmark
British Film Institute in London, UK
National Museum of Film and Television in Bradford, UK
Národní filmový archiv in Prague, Czech Republic (and its Ponrepo cinema)

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