In 1996, the magazine "Archaeology and Arts" took the initiative to organize AGON, International Meeting of Archaeological Films of the Mediterranean Area. The purpose of AGON is to give priority to the people in the Mediterranean having the same cultural roots, experiences and common ties - pictures are meant to be understood in all languages. The presented films deal with archaeology in the Mediterranean Area, in Classical Antiquity, The Middle Ages, and also with industrial archaeology, arts and popular traditions recording the world on its way to its disparation, meaning that life in our time changes into archaeology of the future.

CINARCHEA is the only festival of its kind in Germany and Northern Europe, a Biennial in Kiel at the border of the Baltic since 1994. Organizer is the film study group of the Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel in cooperation with the association CINARCHEA supporting the festival and other partners of the cultural scene of Kiel. The festival director is a film-maker, having made 6 films for the Viking Museum of Haithabu.

The programme is not restricted to one theme or epoch, all kinds of films are accepted: feature - and experimental films, trick-films, documentaries, fiction-films and also artistic forms dealing with the theme "archaeology". For the competition you have to hand in only films produced during the last four years. The retrospection of prize winning films with examples of others festivals and productions from the very beginnings of the cinematography, often silent films, will be presented by professionals. In addition to the festival there will be a symposium, conference languages are German and English. All films are shown in original version offered by the author. There are 6 prizes (partly paid), which the international jury will award. For the festival there will be a detailed calogue (German/English). You will find more information on our website.

C.I.R.A.S. presents the Archaeology Film Festival every two years. In 1990 the Festival took place for the first time. Amiens with its large number of cinemas, offers this important manifestation a huge possibility to sensitize a large audience to archaeological research. There are also lectures and animated discussions with exceptional personalities of the scientific world. The Festival takes place at different theatres to faciliate the attendance to schools and culturel institutions of the region.

The Oiasso Roman Museum and the City Council of Irun organize the INTERNATIONAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL FILM FESTIVAL OF THE BIDASOA. The aim of the Festival is to present archaeology to the general public, through the diffusion of audio-visual material resulted from the work made by archaeologists, assuring the promotion and the spreading of these films.

The Festival is being celebrated since the year 2000 and from the year 2004 it has three prizes: the Grand Prize of the Festival, the Special Audience Prize and Arkeolan Prize for Contribution to Science.

The Roman Museum organize the International Festival of Archeology Films in Nyon. It's a Biennial and took place since 1999. The 7th Festival was in March 2011.

Nyon has become the first Swiss meeting-place of enthusiastic people of archaeological films and it comes into company with the other festivals of the same kind. For archaeology, a very dynamic science today, there is an increasing interest for the entire public. The documentary is certainly the most adequate kind to present it and to show its multiples facettes. The Museum likes a Festival for a public giving them the possibility to discover various subjets and visions in the vast field of archaeology.

Since 2005 the city of Besançon, the capital town of the “Franche-Comté”, has joined the towns where an international festival of films dealing with archaeology is held. Thanks to the Fortis Association, whose all members work on a voluntary basis, the 2nd edition of this event which took place in 2007 from November 7th to November 11th welcomed 9.000 persons or so in the different film theatres (in Besançon but also in the museums of Vesoul and of Bibracte.

This international festival of films dealing with archaeology offers to a very large audience (including school age youths) the chance of discovering or rediscovering recent films about archaeology on a large screen, in French or with French subtitles, those films having been shot and produced anywhere in the world.

To that end and thanks to the support of our different partners (the ministry of cultural affairs, the local communities and private patrons) the admittance to all projections, from the opening show to the closing one when prizes are awarded, is entirely free.

It is to be noticed that the film makers are invited to explain their work to the audience before it is projected. The next edition of the Besançon festival is scheduled to take place in November 2009

The ICRONOS association was created in 1986 by a group of friends passionately interested in archaeology. The three main ideas of ICRONOS are:
– to share its members' passion for archaeology with an always increasing public more and more interested in their origins,
– to inform the public on the results of the researches conducted on Human Heritage,
– to make scientific knowledge more popular.

ICRONOS International Archaeology Film Festival of Bordeaux exists since 1988. It takes place every two years in October. It is mainly supported by public bodies but also by private sponsoring.

On November 8 and 9, 2012, Split will be hosting Croatia's second International Archaeology Film Festival comprising archaeology, cultural heritage, monument protection and anthropology films. The Festival is organized by the Museum of Croatian Archaeological Monuments in Split, the Dalmatian capital synonymous for archaeology that will certainly justify its entrusted role of organizer and ensure the continuity of the event in Split.

The program of the 2nd Festival will consist of a selection of recent archaeology documentary films as well as a retrospective of Croatian archaeology films. These "mini retrospectives" entitled "A selection from..."will become a certain peculiarity of the Festival. The screenings will take place in the impressive interior of the Museum which will be an additional attraction for visitors coming to the city whose historic core, together with Diocletian’s Palace, has been inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1979.

The event will be a way of enriching the city with one more Festival, yet completely different from the others by its content, and will contribute to the evaluation of archaeological research and cultural heritage. The Festival is also considered an excellent opportunity for making the Museum widely known, particularly in the context of the upcoming new permanent exhibition.

In 2000 the UNESCO declared four Belgian excavation sites as World Cultural Heritage. So the neolithic mines of Spiennes were put on this list of great worth. The deep shafts of flint extractions from the camp at Cayaux were published in all newspapers and whole of Belgium discovered a phase of its past. Nevertheless you realized that up to that date the neolithic site wasn't well-known. It was similar to the prehistoric site of Atapuerca (Spain), which was readmitted to the list 2001.

The destruction of the huge Buddhas by the Talibans in Afghanistan accentuated the beginning of the year 2001. These statues carved out of stone were detroyed by explosives in a few seconds after having resisted the time for centuries. We are also worried about the news coming from Peru, announcing a collapse of one part of the Machu Picchu mountain chain, Zeugma, the town in Turkey, which sank into the water of the dam and Cambodia, which brings the plundering of the Khmer towns to attention of the international public.

The protection and preservation start with information and education to the public. Kinéon permits, thanks to free admission to the festival, every one to discover the former brillant civilizations of the whole world. The team Kinéon is active in preservation and protection of the cultural heritage with its educational role concerning the film shows.

Kinéon will dedicate objectively itself to discoveries of less known archaeological sites. The emphasis is put on productions outside Europe and also on recent films. Apart from the film productions there are speakers invited telling about current archaeology.

The RASSEGNA INTERNAZIONALE DEL CINEMA ARCHEOLOGICO began in April 1990 in Rovereto with the congress "Paolo Orsi and Archaeology of 900", with the aim of reaching and awaking the large public to the themes of archaeological research and preservation of the cultural heritage. The festival is organized by the Civic Museum of Rovereto, in which some of the most important Italien archaeologists were, such as Paolo Orsi and Federico Halbherr between 1800 and 1900. The main partner of the Festival is the journal Archeologia Viva, the most widely - circulated archaeology journal in Italy. The Festival of Rovereto takes place every year in the first weeks of October. On this occasion the public can see films in the field of archaeological, historical, palaeontological, anthropological research and all those films aiming at the preservation and bringing out the value of the cultural heritage.

Every year about 60 to 70 films are shown and through public voting a film wins the prize "Città di Rovereto- Archeologia Viva". Every two years an international jury awards the "Prize Paolo Orsi". The selection is thematic and regards the work of recent productions. The knowledge of archaeology is widened through numerous meetings and conversations with archaeologists and scientists from all over the world.

The Festival, with the journal "Archeologia Viva", promotes every year several other festivals in Italy and abroad with the collaboration of institutions, scientific associations and museums. All films reported to the Festival are also catalogued and registered on an online data bank of the Civic Museum. Since 1990 the Festival has been directed by Dario Di Blasi, honorary curator at the Civic Museum of Rovereto.