FIAF and the Deutsche Kinemathek are jointly organizing the first FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab in Berlin. Immediately before the film heritage festival Film Restored, film education stakeholders and FIAF members will meet to discuss film education and the future set-up of meetings of this collaborative network.

The annual FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab will offer an opportunity to reflect on the present and future of education as well as outreach in the field of film heritage. The lab will engage with diverse concepts and perspectives of film education, presenting exemplary outreach and education programmes and putting examples into practice. In addition, field- and topic-specific but also social challenges can be addressed within the network, while solutions or even joint projects can be developed. In this way, film heritage related education shall be strengthened from many different perspectives (aesthetically, historically, media-critically, creatively, and practically).

The FIAF Autumn Lab is intended to offer film archives, cinematheques and film museums, as well as committed specialists, a regularly recurring platform for exchange, knowledge transfer and networking. It has been conceived as a joint and collaborative structure in which FIAF member institutions – but also beyond – are invited to exchange ideas and help shape future contents, methods and emphases of educational work. 

The FIAF Education & Outreach Autumn Lab 2025 is made possible with the generous support of the Arbeitskreis selbständiger Kultur-Institute e.V. (Aski).

Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India 2025 (FPRWI 2025) is an initiative of Film Heritage Foundation in partnership with FIAF and in collaboration with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, British Film Institute, L’Immagine Ritrovata, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA), Cinemateca Portuguesa, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and The Criterion Collection / Janus Films.

Audio-visual collections age, deteriorate, and expand exponentially in the digital age; therefore, it has become vitally important to invest in training, outreach, and assistance programs aimed at providing guidance to professionals whose responsibility is preservation and access.

This 7- day workshop, open to applicants from all over the world, covers the complete range of the issues and topics required to work in the field of audio-visual preservation and will be taught by an international faculty of experts in the field.

The curriculum included both lectures and hands-on sessions on film, video, audio and digital preservation, film conservation and restoration, digitization, cataloguing, paper and photograph conservation, programming, and much more. Classes will be followed by daily evening screenings of restored films from around the world.

FRAME Advanced Access 2025 - Call for applications

Since 2010, INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) organizes the yearly FRAME training programme, dedicated to international audiovisual heritage professionals. FRAME is supported by EBU, FIAT/IFTA and Creative Europe MEDIA.

The call for applications for FRAME Advanced Access 2025, the 2nd training session of the 2025 edition of FRAME, is now open until September 24. 

Deadline to apply: September 24

For who?: All European and international professionals working in the audiovisual archives field, and aimed primarily at professionals already mastering the fundamental knowledge of audiovisual archiving with previous experience or dedicated training. Basic concepts will not be reviewed during presentations considered as already acquired by participants. 

Programme: Focused on the latest developments and innovation of audiovisual collections documentation and access topics: data models, data management and exploitation, AI applied to multimedia collections management, access strategies, audiovisual heritage legal framework,, archives-driven production and access projects, etc. *Technical topics will be covered by the FRAME Advanced Tech session next year

Language: English

Dates: 5 days from November 24-28 2025

Place: At INA, Paris

> For more information about FRAME Advanced Access 2025 and to apply: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-advanced-2025 
> FRAME Advanced Access 2025 Conditions for applications: https://www.ina.fr/hub-p/public/2025-05/FRAME Advanced Access 2025 - Conditions of applications.pdf 
> For more information on FRAME: https://www.ina.fr/actualites-ina/frame-0

In March 2026, 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 11th edition of the Winter School will take place on-site only, at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé and at the Cinémathèque, on 9 and 10 March 2026, just before the Cinémathèque française festival (11-15 March 2026).

The classes (a mixture of lectures, workshops and round-table discussions) will be taught by programming experts from the global network of FIAF archives, and other distinguished professionals in a relevant field. Note that presentations will be delivered in English or French, with simultaneous translation available throughout the course. FIAF's Programming and Access to Collections Commission will lead one of the sessions.