Cinémathèque Française

About

La Cinémathèque française is a French private organization (association loi de 1901) co-founded in 1936 by Henri Langlois, and located since 2005 at 51 rue de Bercy, a building built in 1994 by Frank Gehry in the 12th arrondissement of Paris to house the American Cultural Centre. In France, it is the second oldest cinema library after that of Saint-Étienne which was created in 1922. The missions of the French Cinematheque are the preservation, restoration and dissemination of cinematographic heritage.

With more than 40,000 films and thousands of documents and objects related to cinema, it is one of the world's largest databases on seventh art. The French Cinémathèque is equipped for the projection of silver (70 mm, 35 mm and 16 mm) and digital formats. Funding is provided through a grant from the National Film and Image Centre, sponsorship revenues and own resources (subscriptions, ticketing, bookstores, commercial rentals).