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Use of DataThe Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre (Dovzhenko Centre) is the state film archive of Ukraine and a multi-artform cultural cluster located in Kyiv's Holosiivskyi District. It is the largest Ukrainian film archive and the country's only member of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF), which it joined in 2006. The Centre was founded in 1994 by a presidential decree and is named after pioneering Ukrainian filmmaker Oleksandr Dovzhenko.
The Dovzhenko Centre was founded in 1994, the centenary year of Oleksandr Dovzhenko's birth, taking over responsibility for Ukraine's moving image heritage from the Soviet-era Gosfilmofond archive. In 2000, it merged with the former Kyiv Film Printing Factory (established in 1948), the largest such facility in Soviet Ukraine. From 2016 to 2019, the Centre's former industrial premises underwent a complete renovation and were converted into a multi-artform cultural cluster. In July 2022, directorship was transferred to the Ukrainian State Film Agency. In 2019, the Ukrainian Animation Film Studio (Ukranimafilm) was attached to the Centre.
The film collection holds over 9,000 feature films, documentaries, Ukrainian and foreign animated films, and thousands of archival documents, photographs, posters, and other artifacts representing Ukrainian cinema from 1909 to the present. The oldest item in the vault is a nitrate film from 1909; the oldest Soviet Ukrainian feature film dates to 1922. The Centre stores original materials of all Ukrainian films produced after 1992 and operates modern climate-controlled film vaults. The collection includes works of internationally significant avant-garde Ukrainian filmmakers such as Oleksandr Dovzhenko (Arsenal, 1929; Earth, 1930) and Dziga Vertov (Man with a Movie Camera, 1929).
The Centre operates a mediatheque combining physical and virtual spaces for the research of cinema and screen arts, a Cinema Museum (opened 2019), a non-film archive, a multimedia library, and a publishing department. It also houses the 300-seat performing arts venue Scene 6. The Centre is open to the public and has been actively promoting Ukrainian cinema internationally, including through partnerships with cinematheques and archives worldwide.
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