The DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum is one of the leading international film heritage institutions. Its mission is to preserve the film heritage, make it accessible and share film culture with a worldwide public. It uniquely combines museum, cinema, archives and collections, festivals, digital platforms, research and digitisation projects as well as numerous educational programmes. From the culturally diverse and dynamic city of Frankfurt am Main, the DFF with its more than 200 employees maintains relationships with film and scientific institutions worldwide. It builds bridges from the analogue past to the digital present and future. The DFF is dedicated to the art of film, whose past and present, aesthetics and impact it presents in a variety of ways in exhibitions and in its own cinema. The permanent exhibition presents exciting exhibits, operable models and makes the fascination of the medium film tangible for the approximately 200,000 visitors per year. Several special exhibitions each year complete the programme. Every year the DFF organizes LUCAS - International Festival for Young Film Lovers, goEast - Festival of Central and Eastern European Film as well as the SchulKinoWochen Hessen. filmportal.de is the central internet platform and provides reliable information on all German cinema films. In 2019, the DFF opened its new archive and study center in Frankfurt, in which it concentrates and makes accessible large parts of its archives and collections.