Filmarchiv Austria

As the custodian of Austria’s audio-visual heritage, the Filmarchiv Austria is the country’s central institution for collecting and documenting film. The diversified holdings span a period of more than one hundred years, from the late nineteenth century to the present day. The Filmarchiv Austria currently holds 380,000 films, 2,000,000 photographs and film stills, 48,000 film programs, 20,000 film posters and more than 40,000 books and journals.

At its three main locations – the Film Repository Laxenburg, the Audio-Visual Center Augarten, and the METRO Kinokulturhaus – the archive attends to its varied tasks of preserving, documenting, communicating and presenting the cinematic heritage.