2025 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
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27 October is the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (WDAVH), a key initiative by UNESCO and the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Association (CCAAA). 2025 is a special year as audiovisual archives around the world commemorate the 20th anniversary of WDAVH in raising awareness of the importance and urgency of protecting audiovisual materials to ensure their long-term availability and accessibility.
Audiovisual documentary heritage opens a window to the world through the generations of incredibly unique stories. They reveal the ingenuity of the human spirit and vision, the spectacular lessons learnt from the diversity of cultures, that generate inspiration and creativity. In a world now wrought by insularity and struggling with the pain of war, moving images, aural and oral recordings are effective tools to bridge differences, bringing about much needed empathy, compassion and encouragement.
You can be a part of this preservation movement. Use the poster and video on this dedicated webpage for reaching out to different communities. Share about the events you are organising on and around 27 October. Enable the motivation to contribute time, expertise, effort to save the extraordinary audiovisual legacy for posterity. Join us this World Day for Audiovisual Heritage!
Karen Chan
Chair of the CCAAA
Download, use, and share this year's poster:
Should you require one of the 2025 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage posters in another file format, or in another language, please contact info@ccaaa.org and we will try to help you.
Download, use, and share the promotional video:
You can download and share the World Day video by going to this dedicated page on the CCAAA website. You can also access it on YouTube.
You can now visualize all events of this year's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on a dedicated world map that is updated in real time. You can also visualize all the notices ever posted about events celebrating the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on the CCAAA website since the 2016 edition, on this webpage.
Share the news of your World Day celebrations:
The nine associations forming the CCAAA (AMIA, ARSC, FIAF, FIAT-IFTA, FOCAL International, IASA, ICA, SEAPAVAA, IFLA) strongly encourage all their members (and any other institutions) not only to join in the global celebrations of the 2025 World Day on and around 27 October, but also to share the information about their particular events, by clicking on "ADD AN EVENT" below and filling in the quick-and-easy form. Your descriptive text can be in the language of your choice (or even better... in several languages), but we ask you to limit it to 500 words max. You can also attach one image per event. Please fill in and submit one form per event. Your contributions will be automatically added to the list of Word day events at the bottom of this page (the latest added event will appear at the top of the list).
Happy 2025 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage !
2025 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
To share information about your own celebrations, please click on the ADD A NEW EVENT button below.
27 October is the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (WDAVH), a key initiative by UNESCO and the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Association (CCAAA). 2025 is a special year as audiovisual archives around the world commemorate the 20th anniversary of WDAVH in raising awareness of the importance and urgency of protecting audiovisual materials to ensure their long-term availability and accessibility.
Audiovisual documentary heritage opens a window to the world through the generations of incredibly unique stories. They reveal the ingenuity of the human spirit and vision, the spectacular lessons learnt from the diversity of cultures, that generate inspiration and creativity. In a world now wrought by insularity and struggling with the pain of war, moving images, aural and oral recordings are effective tools to bridge differences, bringing about much needed empathy, compassion and encouragement.
You can be a part of this preservation movement. Use the poster and video on this dedicated webpage for reaching out to different communities. Share about the events you are organising on and around 27 October. Enable the motivation to contribute time, expertise, effort to save the extraordinary audiovisual legacy for posterity. Join us this World Day for Audiovisual Heritage!
Karen Chan
Chair of the CCAAA
Download, use, and share this year's poster:
Should you require one of the 2025 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage posters in another file format, or in another language, please contact info@ccaaa.org and we will try to help you.
Download, use, and share the promotional video:
You can download and share the World Day video by going to this dedicated page on the CCAAA website. You can also access it on YouTube.
You can now visualize all events of this year's World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on a dedicated world map that is updated in real time. You can also visualize all the notices ever posted about events celebrating the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on the CCAAA website since the 2016 edition, on this webpage.
Share the news of your World Day celebrations:
The nine associations forming the CCAAA (AMIA, ARSC, FIAF, FIAT-IFTA, FOCAL International, IASA, ICA, SEAPAVAA, IFLA) strongly encourage all their members (and any other institutions) not only to join in the global celebrations of the 2025 World Day on and around 27 October, but also to share the information about their particular events, by clicking on "ADD AN EVENT" below and filling in the quick-and-easy form. Your descriptive text can be in the language of your choice (or even better... in several languages), but we ask you to limit it to 500 words max. You can also attach one image per event. Please fill in and submit one form per event. Your contributions will be automatically added to the list of Word day events at the bottom of this page (the latest added event will appear at the top of the list).
Happy 2025 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage !
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In this panel, 5 members of PAAG will discuss about the possibilities of reuse of audiovisual content, considering that audiovisual is essential for highlighting our visual culture and is crucial for the identity of individuals and communities. However, the interest in and attraction to this heritage vary across generations and are not experienced equally across different cultures. For this reason, in this panel, PAAG aim to provide the broadest possible perspective on the diverse content being created to break down existing barriers. The goal is to emphasize the value of this heritage by leveraging the possibilities offered by technology and to open a discussion among panellists.
This panel will take place in the framwork of ICA Congress in Barcelona.
From the creation of the amateur cinema section of the Grup Excursionista i Esportiu Gironí (GEiEG) in 1936, to the celebration of the last Antoni Varés Amateur Cinema Trophy in 1976, non-professional cinematographic production in Girona was linked to associations and cinema clubs as spaces for the screening of the works of amateur filmmakers.
Some cultural associations gave a great boost to amateur cinema by creating cinema sections and disseminating their activities through bulletins that were published with more or less regularity. Thanks to these publications, today we can have a fairly exhaustive knowledge of the cinema that was produced in the city outside the commercial cinemas. We refer to the bulletin of the Grup Excursionista i Esportiu Gironí (GEiEG), which has been published since 1920, the Bulletin of the Agrupació Fotogràfica i Cinematogràfica de Girona (AFIC), which was published between 1954 and 1976, and the Bulletin of the Cine-Club Ademar, of which three issues published between 1967 and 1968 are preserved.
This event aims to publicize the amateur cinema that was made in Girona over four decades, through information extracted from the bulletins and the screening of some fragments of films that will help illustrate the information presented.
The Tomijiro Komiya (1897-1975) Collection held by the National Film Archive of Japan is a valuable film heritage, primarily consisting of European silent films, including some films that are the only known surviving copies in the world.
We are pleased to present newly discovered filmsfrom the Collection, based on the research conducted at "In a Maze of Images. The Tomijiro Komiya Collection," which was co-hosted with Il Cinema Ritrovato Festival in 2021.
We hope you will come and discover the fascinating world of silent films, and learn about the activities of film archiving, which preserves the historical and cultural heritage.
In Celebration of UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
Cinema: Lost and Found
From the Collection of Komiya Tomijiro Part 2
Date： Oct 4(Sat), 2025
Venue: Nagase Memorial Theatre OZU (2nd floor)
Capacity: 299 seats
＊For more detailed information, please see the webpage of the event (in Japanese)
【Program A】 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
La louve（The She-Wolf）Michel Carré, 11min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
Le songe de Nick Winter（Nick Winter’s Dream）Gérard Bourgeois, 7min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
Il bivio della morte（Between Life and Death）unkown, 23min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
La Leçon du gouffre（The Intriguers）Ferdinand Zecca, René Leprince, 22min. 16fps・35ｍｍ
L’anniversario（The Anniversary）Riccardo Tolentino, 21min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
Das Teufelsauge（The Devil’s Eye）Harry Piel, 11min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
The Biter Bit unkown, 9min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
Kamisama no Nakadachi unkown, 9min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
【Program B】 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Robinet innamorato di una chanteuse（Tweedledum in Love with a Singer）Marcel Fabre, 7min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
L’ultimo dei Frontignac（The Last of the Frontignacs）Mario Caserini, 10min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
Schatten der Nacht（Shadows of the Night）Harry Piel, 23min. 16fps・35ｍｍ
（The Two Consciences）unkown, 29min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
La fuga dei diamanti（The Queen of Diamonds）Augusto Genina, 13min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
Atlas. Episodio 2: accusa D’ oltre Tomba（Atlas）Mario Guaita, 15min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
Caccia all’orso, unkown, 7min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
Se fossi Re!（Dream of Shepherd/The Shepherd’s Dream/If I Were King）Edoardo Bencivenga, 9min. 18fps・35ｍｍ
* Piano accompaniment: Mie Yanashita
↓Click to view the leaflet (in Japanese).
https://www.nfaj.go.jp/wp-content/uploads/unesco2025.pdf
