11 New Treasures of European Film Culture
11 New Treasures of European Film Culture

The European Film Academy adds another 11 places to the Treasures of European Film Culture. With these Treasures, the Academy celebrates places of a symbolic nature for European cinema, places of historical value that need to be maintained and protected not just now, but for generations to come.
The new additions include architectural gems like Liège-Guillemins railway station or the Summer Riding School in Salzburg, emblematic urban spaces like 1 May Square in Piran (Slovenia) and Malko Tarnovo Street in Sofia, buildings like the Günderodehaus in Oberwesel and Berghotel Schatzalp in Davos, but also spaces dedicated to film culture like the Malta Film Studios with their impressive water tanks, two grand historical cinemas – Lisbon’s Teatro Tivoli and Amsterdam’s Royal Theatre Tuschinski, as well as the Quiet Man Museum in Cong (Ireland) – and even a whole landscape, namely the Curonian Spit on the Baltic coast in Lithuania.
“Honouring another 11 places as Treasures of European Film Culture is a great joy. Especially so since we now reach the great total number of 60 which we will extend on an annual basis. Four of these new places are in countries that were previously missing from the map of Treasures: Bulgaria, Lithuania, Malta and Slovenia,” says Pascal Edelmann, Head of European Film Heritage at the European Film Academy. “To continue on this path, we’d like to invite everyone to suggest places the European Film Academy might want to consider as Treasures of European Film Culture.”
The Treasures of European Film Culture are part of the European Film Academy’s expanded film heritage activities, which started in 2022. The European Film Heritage department has since then initiated a network of national film academies, cinematheques and film archives dedicated to the support and promotion of classics from our continent. Part of the heritage activities is also the “In Memoriam“ section of the European Film Awards, which commemorates personalities of European cinema who passed away.
New among the 60 Treasures:
AUSTRIA:
Summer Riding School (Felsenreitschule) in Salzburg for THE SOUND OF MUSIC
BELGIUM:
Liège-Guillemins railway station for LORNA’S SILENCE (Le Silence de Lorna) by Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, TIED (Une histoire d’amour) by Hélène Fillières et al.
BULGARIA:
Malko Tarnovo Street in Sofia for various films like WE WERE YOUNG (A byahme mladi), THE PROSECUTOR (Prokurat) and ZIFT.
GERMANY:
Günderodehaus in Oberwesel for HEIMAT by Edgar Reitz
IRELAND:
The Quiet Man Museum in Cong for THE QUIET MAN
LITHUANIA:
The Curonian Spit for FEELINGS (Jausmai) by Almantas Grikevicius and Algirdas Dausa (1968), SMALL CONFESSION by Algirdas Araminas (1971) et al
MALTA:
The Malta Film Studios for WHITE SQUALL by Ridley Scott, Clash of the Titans by Desmond Davis et al
NETHERLANDS:
Royal Theatre Tuschinski in Amsterdam, a legendary movie theatre opened in 1921 which was built in Art Deco and the Amsterdam School style
PORTUGAL:
The neo-classical cinema theatre Teatro Tivoli in Lisbon which opened in 1924
SLOVENIA:
1 May Square in Piran for OUR CAR (Naš avto) by František Čap (1962), SUMMER IN A SEASHELL (Poletje v školjki) by Tugo Štiglic (1986), et al
SWITZERLAND:
Berghotel Schatzalp in Davos for YOUTH by Paolo Sorrentino