Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen – Stiftung Deutsche Kinemathek

The Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation – Museum for Film and Television is a legally recognized private law foundation based in Berlin. It is dedicated to the preservation, cataloging, and dissemination of audiovisual heritage in Germany and internationally. Its collection includes films, publications, posters, photographs, technical equipment, and film-historical documents. Through temporary exhibitions, publications, film series, and festivals, it makes film and television history accessible to a broad audience and promotes both scholarly and educational engagement with the moving image.

The Deutsche Kinemathek Foundation is tasked with documenting, preserving, and making accessible the German and international film and television heritage. It promotes understanding and interest in film and television through exhibitions, events, and publications. As a cultural memory institution, it safeguards analog film heritage, implements digitization projects, and advocates for diversity, inclusion, and critical reflection on historical content.

The offerings of the Deutsche Kinemathek are aimed at film and television researchers, students and scholars, film enthusiasts and a generally interested audience, schools, universities and educational institutions for outreach programs, film and media professionals utilizing film distribution and restoration, as well as cultural institutions and cooperation partners both domestically and internationally.