FRAME Basics 2026

Since 2010, INA (French National Audiovisual Institute) designs and organizes the yearly international FRAME training programme, with the support of EBU Academy, FIAT/IFTA and the Creative Europe MEDIA programme. FRAME includes 2 training sessions (FRAME Basics and FRAME Advanced), a mentoring programme (FRAME Mentoring) and workshops (FRAME Expert) organized with FIAT/IFTA and EBU.

The call for applications for FRAME Basics, the online training session of the 2026 edition of FRAME, is now open until October 1st. 

• Target group: The FRAME Basics training session is addressed to all European and international professionals working in the audiovisual archives field, and aimed primarily at professionals who are willing to reinforce or acquire the fundamentals of audiovisual archiving (professionals with little experience, professionals who have had little or no training in this field, professionals working in organisations with few resources, etc.).


• Training programme: The training programme will cover all the audiovisual archiving process steps and aspects, from preservation, digitization, documentation to access, reuse and distribution. It will focus on fundamental knowledge and skills.


• Dates & place: The training session will take place online during 6 half-day, in two parts, from November 16-18 and November 23-25 2026


• Language: English


• Deadline to apply: October 1st

> For more information about FRAME Basics 2026 and to apply: FRAME Basics call for applications

> For more information on FRAME 2025: FRAME 2026 programme

Film Preservation & Restoration Workshop India 2026 (FPRWI 2026) 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, Yale Film Archive, and The Criterion Collection / Janus Films.

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.

The curriculum includes both lectures and small group sessions on analogue film identification, repair and restoration, digitization and digital preservation and restoration, cataloguing, library sciences, paper and photograph conservation, programming, and much more. Classes will be followed by daily evening screenings of restored films from around the world.

Registrations open until 30 September via the dedicated webpage.

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Organized/presented by: Adelheid Heftberger (Host, Head of the CDC), Paul Duchesne (CDC member, National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra)

Limited to 20 participants.

Target group: Everyone interested in aggregating and mapping data, knowledge graphs, and ontologies. No expertise needed, but some basic understanding of metadata schemas, ontologies, semantic web will be beneficial.

Content: Paul will present the FIAF Knowledge Graph and its potential use for film archives. He will talk about the origins of the project, the challenges, the data management, and we will together look at search options. Anyone who wants to bring their own query examples or possible use cases is more than welcome!

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Organized/presented by: Florian Wrobel and Caroline Fournier (FIAF Technical Commission), and Camille Blot-Wellens (former TC member).

Limited to 25 participants.

Target group: Everyone working within a film archive or in the field of film preservation. In particular, colleagues from new archives or archives with small resources or lacking specific workflows.

Content: The Fundamental Archiving Resources project is a tool that brings together documents, methods, and resources that can be used by a wide network of archives, in order to provide the basics of collections management, as well as low-budget tools and principles for starting to work with a collection from scratch.

Following a brief presentation of the tool  (15 mins), the workshop will focus on user feedback and a discussion about needs. A call for contributions will allow participants to suggest new additions or corrections, as this tool is a work in progress and needs to evolve in line with expectations of the community.

Participants will therefore be expected to familiarize themselves with the tool before the workshop so that they can provide feedback and suggestions. 

Duration: 1.5 hrs

Organized/presented by: Adelheid Heftberger (Host, Head of the CDC), Akram Al Saud (Data Verification and Cataloguing Officer, Transitional Justice & Missing Persons | Truth Guardians NGO)

Limited to 20 participants 

Target group: Cataloguers, archivists, documentation professionals, and others who work with, or are interested in, conflict- and atrocity-related visual material, especially the challenges of describing sensitive material when the available context is limited or uncertain.

Content: The session will focus on practical approaches to cataloguing Syrian visual documentation. Akram Al Saud will share some of what he has learned through his work and training at The White Helmets/Truth Guardians, including how we describe what can be seen, deal with limited or uncertain information, use labels and keywords, and keep the work consistent between cataloguers.

Presentation of the course:
On 1 and 2 March 2027, 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 12th edition of the Winter School will take place on-site only, at the Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé and at the Cinémathèque, on 1 and 2 March 2027, just before the Cinémathèque française Festival.

Speakers & Programme:

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. A more detailed schedule will be published in early 2027.

Registration:

Registration for the 2027 FIAF Winter School will open in January 2027.

The 4th edition of the Biennial Audio-Visual Archival Summer School (BAVASS) will be held from 8 to 16 May 2027 in Bangkok, Thailand. The event is organized by FIAF and the Thai Film Archive (Public Organization), in collaboration with SEAPAVAA.

Audiovisual preservation takes place simultaneously across the globe, providing endless inspiration for developing our collective knowledge as a global community of archivists. This edition will draw on preservation experiences from Southeast Asia as a starting point for reflecting on the knowledge and practices that have developed over the decades, particularly in the Northern hemisphere.

The eight-day summer school will cover the full preservation workflow, including collection management, audiovisual conservation, restoration, programming and analogue projection. International experts in the field will share their knowledge and experiences with the participants. The learning materials will be enriched with examples of collaborative work in audiovisual archiving involving diverse entities, such as institutional archives, community organizations, individuals, and international organizations.

The summer school will include lectures, case studies, and hands-on workshops on film, video, digital audiovisual formats, sound, programming and film-related materials. In addition to classroom activities, participants will have access to restored film screenings and preservation facility tours. The courses and additional activities will be conducted in English.

BAVASS is open to applicants from around the world. The courses are designed for film preservationists, archivists, restoration technicians and students with a particular interest in learning from global audiovisual preservation practices. Applicants may be considered for one of several scholarships supporting course fee and partial travel cost.

The details about the courses, scholarship and application form will be available in January 2027.

In February 2026, BFI Special Collections announced a name-change to Screencraft, a name that reflects both the work of the archive and the collections we care for. This is a change that recognizes that the labour that goes into making a film requires expanding the meaning of filmmaker to all those involved, and identifying the various crafts that shape it found in film-related collections. These paper archives hold stories not only of finished films, but of the process of making. Across all departments and all levels of the industry, these documents speak to the people and the craft of filmmaking.

The focus for this workshop is to consider the craft and making of films, with a view to caring for collections that not only reflect the collaborative nature of filmmaking, but the various skills and roles within it, both above and below the line – from directors and screenwriters, to costume and set designers, script supervisors, publicists and casting directors. We'll be asking who makes films, and how is this evident within film-related collections? Are we surfacing these stories and the collaborative nature of filmmaking enough? How might we ensure that film-labour that has been historically overlooked, is now noticed and given their right place in the archive and to the history of screen work?

With this workshop, the CDC would like to offer a place and framework in which precisely the specific issues relating to film-related materials can be discussed openly and experiences exchanged. After successful workshops in Stockholm and Bologna on cataloguing film-related materials in 2023 and 2025, we are happy to continue our fruitful discussions on these topics in London.

The classes (a mixture of lectures and workshops) will be taught by experts from the global network of FIAF archives, and other distinguished professionals in a relevant field.

The detailed schedule will be available in early 2027.

Applications for registration will be open from 1 February to 1 March 2027, via an online form. Successful candidates will be notified by email by 15 March. The course is offered free of charge and includes lunch on the first day and coffee breaks. Participants are expected to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements. Note that the course will be limited to 40 participants.

We will welcome proposals for our lightning talks session (5-minute input per talk), which can be submitted in the registration process.

FIAF will offer some financial assistance to a limited number of participants, to cover part of their travel and accommodation costs. More information will be available when registrations open.