The Slovene Film Archive (SFA), the unit of the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia, joined in the
celebration of the hundred's anniversary of the Slovene film by organizing the congress of the FIAF,
The International Federation of Film Archives and Cinematheques, which took place in June 2005 in
Ljubljana. SFA was established in the year 1968 and it has been one of the oldest institutions of its
kind in the Central European area. It has been keeping the majority of the original picture negatives
and sound negatives of the Slovene film heritage, including the first Slovene films of Dr. Karol
Grossmann, dating back to the years 1905 and 1906; Grossmann's films were restored and changed
to digital. The hundred's anniversary of the Slovene film is probably an occasion for the consideration
of the fact that without the preservedfilm heritage, only something void of contents would
be celebrated, or may be, it would only be the matter of the solemnization of the year 1905.