The Cinémathèque française, founded in 1936, is a French non-profit film organization that holds one of the largest archives of film documents and film-related objects in the world. Based in Paris's 12th arrondissement, the archive offers daily screenings of worldwide films.
Cinémathèque française
The Palais de Chaillot, 16th arrondissement.
Cinémathèque's president Costa-Gavras (right) attentive to Steven Spielberg's (left) Masterclass [Paris - Jan. 9th, 2012].
A cinematheque is an archive of films and film-related objects with an exhibition venue. Similarly to a book library, a cinematheque is responsible for preserving and making available to the public film heritage. Typically, a cinematheque has at least one motion picture theatre, which offers screenings of its collections and other international films.
Main facade of the head office, Bulgarian National Film Archive (Българска Национална Филмотека)
Jerusalem Cinematheque
The Cinémathèque québécoise, Montreal
Entrance to the new Tel Aviv Cinematheque