Last year, Piran’s Trg 1 May was added to this list as the first from Slovenia. Photo: Dnevnik archive
Europe got ten new treasures of European film culture, Slovenia remains with one
The European Film Academy added ten more locations to the treasures of European film culture, none of them from Slovenia. Last year, Piran’s Trg 1 May was added to this list as the first from Slovenia.
Among the new treasures are the historic cinemas Bio Skandia in Stockholm, Kino International in Berlin and Splendid Palace in Riga, Shqiperia e Re film studios in Tirana and Dovzhenko in Kiev, as well as filming locations: Stalker’s Path in Tallinn, the power plant in Vemork, Norway, and the Roman Fountain in Belgrade, as well as the City Museum in Kaunas, where the film with puppet animation was born, and the Krzysztof Kieslowski Archive in the Polish town of Sokolowsko.
The European Film Academy added new treasures of European film culture after consultation with a committee that included film journalist and curator Ola Salwa from Poland, producer and president of the board of the European Film Academy Ada Solomon from Romania, and the artistic director of the German Cinematheque, Heleen Gerritsen from the Netherlands.
The European Film Academy classifies as treasures places that have a symbolic meaning for European film and a historical value that must be preserved and protected for future generations as well.
“It is a great pleasure that we can declare another ten locations as treasures of European film culture. They are important historical locations, among which are film studios, cinemas, locations and film archives. Three are in countries that were previously missing from the map of treasures: Albania, Estonia and Serbia,” said Pascal Edelmann, head of the department for European film heritage, in a press release of the European Film Academy. At the same time, Edelmann invited everyone to propose places that the European Film Academy should include among the treasures of European film culture.
The Treasures of European Film Culture is part of the European Film Academy’s expanded activities in the field of film heritage, which began in 2022. The European Film Heritage Department has since established a network of national film academies, cinematheques and film archives dedicated to the support and promotion of the classics of the European continent. Part of the activities in the field of heritage is also the In memory initiative, when the deceased personalities of European cinema are honored as part of the awarding of the European Film Awards.
