Film Heritage

The Film Institute library is the only specialist film library in Sweden. The library is open to everyone, and registered borrowers can enjoy the collection of more than 50,000 film books and more than 1,000 film journals.  The library also holds a manuscript collection with thousands of original Swedish manuscripts and a wealth of personal and company-related film documents. One of the library's most important functions is as a research resource, and it works in partnership with the Stockholm University subsidiary library for Film Studies to meet the needs of students and those conducting research. Situated in Filmhuset in Stockholm, the library also comprises a major stills and poster archive.

Digitization

The unit Digitization digitizes and restores analog film to be made available in digital display windows. The aim is to create a digital display material that, as far as possible, mimics the original analog display. The Film Institute restores about 50 filmmakers annually. The unit is also responsible for the digital film archive.

The Film Archive

The Swedish Film Institute is justly proud to be the keeper of one of the world's oldest film archives. It comprises more than 32,000 Swedish and foreign titles, virtually all the films that have ever been screened at Swedish cinemas. The archive maintains a dialogue with researchers, and works together with the Swedish National Archive of Recorded Sound and Moving Images to collect, catalogue, preserve, restore and make accessible Sweden's film heritage.

Cinemateket

Cinemateket is tasked with making film heritage accessible and developing it both nationally and internationally. The work is carried out both quantitatively and curatively. Children and young people have a particular focus where we work with the film experience, resources and sources of information in schools and during leisure time.

The unit handles the lending of films from both the analog and digital film collections to cinemas, festivals, cinematheques, and other screening entities and is responsible for the Film Institute’s distribution of digitally reproduced Swedish films to Swedish cinemas. The unit also manages the Film Institute’s film rights and coordinates the selection for the digital reproduction of the Swedish film heritage. The responsibility for Filmhuset's two cinema auditoriums, Bio Victor and Bio Mauritz, lies with the unit.

This includes the in-house screening activities at Filmhuset, which aim to increase awareness and interest in film history and film as an art form, as well as filmarkivet.se, which is operated together with the National Library of Sweden.