Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum

Founded originally as Deutsches Institut für Filmkunde (DIF) in 1949, the DFF – Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum is the oldest film heritage institution in Germany. As a pioneer in film preservation and the advancement of film culture, the DFF today functions as a unique combination of research institute, museum, cinema and archive, providing an exceptional variety of services and expertise: from managing numerous collections covering all aspects of cinema and cinematography to screenings at festivals, from digitization projects to various educational programs. The DFF actively works towards intercultural understanding, cultivating close relationships to institutions and initiatives in film arts and film sciences around the world. Thereby, DFF links the history, materiality and meaning of film to the digital future.
As an integral part of its mission, the DFF promotes film culture through national and international online services and projects. With filmportal.de, the DFF maintains the central internet platform for German Cinema and the authoritative national filmography. On the European level, the DFF has coordinated several seminal projects, including MIDAS, EFG – The European Film Gateway, and EFG1914.

Role in the Project

The DFF provides the VHH project with the filmographic metadata of Holocaust-related films. The “Cinematography of the Holocaust”, jointly created in the course of 20 years from 1992 to 2012 by Fritz Bauer Institut and DFF under the visionary lead of Ronny Loewy, comprises some 4,000 films. Only partially accessible for years, this vast metadata collection is systematically revised, updated and expanded in the course of the VHH project. Films released after 2012 are added jointly by VHH teams at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the DFF. With its expertise on metadata, the DFF also contributes to the development of the VHH-EFG Metadata Schema.

Team Members

Participation in Public Deliverables

D1.5 EU Commission Policy Brief: Fostering Media-Literate Cultural Memory Contributor

D1.6 EU Commission Policy Brief: ECCCH – No Cultural Heritage Cloud Without Audiovisual Media Author

D2.4 Database of Films, Artworks, and other Visual Culture Products Contributor

D4.1 Controlled Vocabularies Specification Contributor

D4.2 Metadata Integration Concept Contributor

Participation in Events

Pre-Kick-off Meeting Meeting Friday, 19.10.2018, 09:15 to Saturday, 20.10.2018, 18:00

Kick-off Meeting Meeting Wednesday, 27.02.2019, 09:15 to Friday, 01.03.2019, 20:00

Metadata Workshop Monday, 21.10.2019, 09:00 to Tuesday, 22.10.2019, 16:00

Consortium Meeting Meeting Tuesday, 23.02.2021, 15:00 to Wednesday, 24.02.2021, 19:00

Tracing Visual Evidence of the Holocaust: Challenges of the Digital Curation of Liberation Footage across Archives and Disciplines Panel Tuesday, 26.04.2022, 09:00 to Tuesday, 26.04.2022, 10:30

Moving Images from the Archives. Historical Footage of Nazi Crimes in Documentaries Conference Sunday, 08.05.2022, 18:00 to Tuesday, 10.05.2022, 17:00

Migrating Images and Image Migration: How Popular Culture Shapes the Visual History of the Holocaust Conference Monday, 12.09.2022, 18:00 to Wednesday, 14.09.2022, 20:00

Documenting Nazi Crimes through Film: Soviet Union, 1942–1945 Conference Thursday, 24.11.2022, 09:30 to Sunday, 27.11.2022, 16:30

Vernetzte Bilder: Digitale Zugänge zum audiovisuellen Erbe des Holocaust Monday, 11.12.2023, 14:00 to Tuesday, 12.12.2023, 17:45