EFG

>> www.kava.fi The Finnish Film Archive was founded in 1957 as a private association. The following year it joined the International Federation of Film Archives, FIAF. In 1979, the archive became a public body operating under the Ministry of Education. On 1 January 2008, the archive's functions were extended to radio and television archiving. A new name was adopted at the same time – National Audiovisual Archive.

The National Audiovisual Archive’s main tasks are the acquisition, preservation and restoration of Finnish audiovisual heritage, the promotion of cinema and audiovisual culture in general, and the screening of films of artistic, historical or other significance.

Since 1984, legal deposit has provided the archive with a full coverage of domestic film production, regardless of genre or format. Older surviving film heritage has almost without exception been deposited to the care of the archive on a voluntary basis.

Thanks to systematic film preservation work, over 90% of all Finnish feature films still exist today. The archive also holds a comprehensive collection of non-feature films. The most valuable example is the Suomi-Filmi collection from 1919–1965, which is considered to comprise ca. 70% of Finnish short and documentary film production of the era. The films’ value is further increased by the fact that the films mostly remain in context as parts of a series, such as newsreels. National Audiovisual Archive holds all non-television rights to the Suomi-Filmi collection, which includes the Finlandia-katsaukset (Finlandia Reviews) 1 - 700 newsreels. These films can be exploited at its discretion.