Filmoteka Narodowa

The National Film Archive in Poland was created in 1955. From the beginning it belonged to The International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), an association of the majority of film archives in the World. The collection of film reels and archival materials such as posters, photos, scripts assembled in Filmoteka Narodowa is one of the largest in Europe. With the help of few generation of archivists Filmoteka Narodowa retrieve 75% of Polish feature films from 1914 to 1939 rescued after the II World War. It is the most precious part of the archive’s collection. Filmoteka Narodowa co-organize reviews of Polish films abroad as well as foreign films in Poland, run a library related to Polish and world cinema, shows classic of world and Polish cinematography in the cinema Iluzjon.