National Oleksandr Dovzhenko Film Centre


Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre is the state film archive and a cultural cluster in Kyiv, Ukraine.

History

Founded in 1994 by a decree of the President of Ukraine.
In 2000 Dovzhenko Centre was merged with the former Kyiv Film Printing Factory, the only and the biggest of its kind in Ukraine, and took over its property, facilities and film collection.
Since 2006 the Centre is a member of the International Federation of Film Archives. The Ukrainian Animation Film Studio was attached to the Centre in 2019.
From 2016 - 2019 the former industrial premises of the Centre underwent a complete renovation and refurbishment, and were converted into a multi-artform cultural cluster. In September 2019 the Centre opened the first Film Museum in Ukraine.

Structure

Dovzhenko Centre's operates a film depository, chemical and digital film laboratories, the Film Museum, a film archive and a mediatheque. The institution is housed in an eight-storey building in Kyiv's Holosiiv district.
It also operates a 300-seat performing arts venue Scene 6, located on its sixth floor together with several independent theatre music and performing arts companies and collectives.

Collection

Dovzhenko Centre's film collection includes over 5,500 Ukrainian, Russian, American and European feature, documentary and animation films; thousands of archive documents, photos, posters and other artifacts that represent the history of Ukrainian cinema from the beginning of ХХ century until the present day. The oldest film print preserved by the Centre dates back to 1910, and the oldest Ukrainian feature film in the Centre's collection was produced in 1922.