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Film society, the Glossary

A film society is a membership-based club where people can watch screenings of films which would otherwise not be shown in mainstream cinemas.^[1]

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Adrian Brunel

Adrian Brunel (4 September 1892 – 18 February 1958) was an English film director and screenwriter.

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Amos Vogel

Amos Vogel (Vogelbaum; April 18, 1921 – April 24, 2012) was a New York City cineaste and curator.

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Amrit Gangar

Amrit Gangar is an Indian film scholar, historian, critic, curator and writer from Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

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André Bazin

André Bazin (18 April 1918 – 11 November 1958) was a renowned and influential French film critic and film theorist.

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Andrzej Wajda

Andrzej Witold Wajda (6 March 1926 – 9 October 2016) was a Polish film and theatre director.

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Annecy

Annecy is the prefecture and largest town of the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of Southeastern France.

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Annecy International Animation Film Festival

The Annecy International Animation Film Festival (Festival international du film d'animation d'Annecy, officially abbreviated in English as the Annecy Festival, or simply Annecy) was created in 1960 and takes place at the beginning of June in the town of Annecy, France.

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Art film

An art film, art cinema, or arthouse film is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Council of Film Societies

Australian Council of Film Societies ACOFS is the national body for film societies in Australia.

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Beeban Kidron

Beeban Tania Kidron, Baroness Kidron, (born 2 May 1961), is a British politician.

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Biarritz

Biarritz (also spelled Miarritze; Biàrritz) is a city on the Bay of Biscay, on the Atlantic coast in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the French Basque Country in southwestern France.

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BRD (Germany)

BRD (Bundesrepublik Deutschland; English: FRG/Federal Republic of Germany) is an unofficial abbreviation for the Federal Republic of Germany, informally known in English as West Germany until 1990, and just Germany since reunification.

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British Federation of Film Societies

The British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS), which has used the trading name Cinema For All since 2014, is the national organisation for the development and support of the film society and community cinema movement in the United Kingdom.

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British Film Institute

The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom.

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Calcutta Film Society

Calcutta Film Society was India’s second film society in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta), West Bengal, India.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Canadian Film Institute

The Canadian Film Institute (CFI) (Institut canadien du film (ICF)) Canadian Film Institute involves Canada in the film production, study, appreciation process of film/moving images for cultural and educational purposes.

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Cannes

Cannes (Canas) is a city located on the French Riviera.

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Catalonia

Catalonia (Catalunya; Cataluña; Catalonha) is an autonomous community of Spain, designated as a nationality by its Statute of Autonomy.

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Chennai International Film Festival

The Chennai International Film Festival (CIFF) is a festival organised in the city of Chennai, India, by a film society, the Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation (ICAF), with the support of The Government of Tamil Nadu, the South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce and the Film Federation of India.

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Chicago

Chicago is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Illinois and in the Midwestern United States.

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Cinémathèque française

The (French cinematheque), founded in 1936, is a French non-profit film organization that holds one of the largest archives of film documents and film-related objects in the world.

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Cinema 16

Cinema 16 was a New York City–based film society founded by Amos Vogel. Film society and Cinema 16 are film societies.

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Cinema of Africa

Cinema of Africa covers both the history and present of the making or screening of films on the African continent, and also refers to the persons involved in this form of audiovisual culture.

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Cleveland

Cleveland, officially the City of Cleveland, is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Club (organization)

A club is an association of people united by a common interest or goal.

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Columbia Film Society

The Columbia Film Society is a nonprofit organization founded in January 1979 in Columbia, South Carolina.

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Conversation

Conversation is interactive communication between two or more people.

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Country

A country is a distinct part of the world, such as a state, nation, or other political entity.

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Culture

Culture is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.

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David Stratton

David James Stratton (born 1939) is an English-Australian film critic and historian.

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Delaware

Delaware is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern region of the United States.

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Delhi

Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi (ISO: Rāṣṭrīya Rājadhānī Kṣētra Dillī), is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India.

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Democracy

Democracy (from dēmokratía, dēmos 'people' and kratos 'rule') is a system of government in which state power is vested in the people or the general population of a state.

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Dhaka University Film Society

Dhaka University Film Society (in short DUFS) is a voluntary organization affiliated with the Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU) at University of Dhaka. Film society and Dhaka University Film Society are film societies.

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Doc Films

Doc Films, formerly the Documentary Film Group, is a student-operated film society at the University of Chicago.

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Dublin

Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland and also the largest city by size on the island of Ireland.

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East Germany

East Germany (Ostdeutschland), officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR; Deutsche Demokratische Republik,, DDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 October 1990.

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Edinburgh Film Guild

The Edinburgh Film Guild (EFG) is a film society based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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Education

Education is the transmission of knowledge, skills, and character traits and manifests in various forms.

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Federation of Film Societies of Bangladesh

Federation of Film Societies of Bangladesh (FFSB) is the umbrella organization of film societies in Bangladesh.

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Federation of Film Societies of India

Federation of Film Societies of India (FFSI) is the umbrella body of film-screening societies in India.

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Film at Lincoln Center

Film at Lincoln Center (FLC), previously known as the Film Society of Lincoln Center (FSLC) until 2019,Aridi, Sara (April 28, 2019). Film society and Film at Lincoln Center are film societies.

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Film festival

A film festival is an organized, extended presentation of films in one or more cinemas or screening venues, usually in a single city or region.

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Filmclub

Filmclub was an education charity that sets up film clubs in schools and other education and care establishments in England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and the Isle of Man.

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Filmmaking

Filmmaking or film production is the process by which a motion picture is produced.

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François Truffaut

François Roland Truffaut (6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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Frank Moorhouse

Frank Thomas Moorhouse (21 December 1938 – 26 June 2022) was an Australian writer who won major national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay and for script writing.

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French New Wave

The New Wave (Nouvelle Vague), also called the French New Wave, is a French art film movement that emerged in the late 1950s.

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Galicia (Spain)

Galicia (Galicia (officially) or Galiza; Galicia) is an autonomous community of Spain and historic nationality under Spanish law.

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Georges Franju

Georges Franju (12 April 1912 – 5 November 1987) was a French filmmaker.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Henri Langlois

Henri Langlois (13 November 1914 – 13 January 1977) was a French film archivist and cinephile.

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Hobart Film Society

The Hobart Film Society (HFS) is the oldest continually operating film society in Australia. Film society and Hobart Film Society are film societies.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and in the Southern United States.

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Hugh Miller (actor)

Hugh Miller (22 May 18891 November 1976) was a British stage and film actor.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg

The Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival (Internationales Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg), often referred to by the German-language initialism IFFMH, is an annual film festival established in 1952 hosted jointly by the cities of Mannheim and Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, the southwest region of Germany.

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Iris Barry

Iris Barry (1895 – 22 December 1969) was a film critic and curator.

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Irish Film Theatre

The Irish Film Theatre (IFT) was a cinema dedicated to showing art films in Dublin in Ireland from 1977 to 1984.

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Ivor Montagu

Ivor Goldsmid Samuel Montagu (23 April 1904, in Kensington, London – 5 November 1984, in Watford) was an English filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, film critic, writer, table tennis player, and Communist activist and spy in the 1930s.

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Jean Cocteau

Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, film director, visual artist and critic.

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Jean Vigo

Jean Vigo (26 April 1905 – 5 October 1934) was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s.

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John Flaus

John Flaus (born 1934) is an Australian actor.

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Ken Quinnell

Ken Quinnell (born 1939) is an Australia screenwriter and film director.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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List of film periodicals

Film periodicals combine discussion of individual films, genres and directors with in-depth considerations of the medium and the conditions of its production and reception.

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Louis Delluc

Louis Delluc (14 October 1890 – 22 March 1924) was an Impressionist French film director, screenwriter and film critic.

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Maitland, Florida

Maitland is a suburban city in Orange County, Florida, United States, part of the Greater Orlando area.

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Maya Deren

Maya Deren (born Eleonora Derenkovskaya, Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська; // ЦГИАК Украины. Ф. 1164. Оп. 1. Д. 161 (517 — по старой нумерации). Л. 73об–74. (russian) – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born (then part of the Russian Empire, now independent Ukraine) American experimental filmmaker and important part of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Melbourne Cinematheque

The Melbourne Cinémathèque is a non-profit membership-based film society screening programs year-round, dedicated to presenting the history of world cinema on the big screen in carefully curated retrospectives.

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Michael Thornhill

Michael Thornhill (29 March 1941 – 22 January 2022) was a film producer, screenwriter, and director.

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Montmartre

Montmartre is a large hill in Paris's northern 18th arrondissement.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Movie theater

A movie theater (American English), cinema (British English), or cinema hall (Indian English), also known as a movie house, picture house, picture theater or simply theater, is a business that contains auditoria for viewing films (also called movies, motion pictures or "flicks") for public entertainment. Film society and movie theater are cinemas and movie theaters.

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Moviyana Film Society

The Moviyana Film Society (ম্যুভিয়ানা ফিল্ম সোসাইটি) is one of the largest film culture oriented organisations in Bangladesh.

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Mumbai

Mumbai (ISO:; formerly known as Bombay) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra.

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Musée Dapper

Musée Dapper was a French museum specializing in African art.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nice

Nice (Niçard: Niça, classical norm, or Nissa, Mistralian norm,; Nizza; Nissa; Νίκαια; Nicaea) is a city in and the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France.

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Ottawa

Ottawa (Canadian French) is the capital city of Canada.

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Oxford University Film Foundation

The Oxford University Filmmaking Foundation (OUFF) (formally the Oxford Film Foundation and the Oxford Broadcasting Association) is the principal funding body and provider of film equipment for the many independent films made by students at the University of Oxford.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and largest city of France.

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Peoria Riverfront Museum

The Peoria Riverfront Museum is a non-profit multidisciplinary museum of art, science, history, and achievement that promotes itself as the only museum of its kind in the United States.

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Peoria, Illinois

Peoria is a city in and county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, United States.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Public and private screening

A public screening is the showing of moving pictures to an audience in a public place.

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Ranesh Dasgupta Film Society

Ranesh Dasgupta Film Society was established in 2008.

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René Clément

René Clément (18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter.

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Ricciotto Canudo

Ricciotto Canudo (2 January 1877, Gioia del Colle – 10 November 1923, Paris) was an early Italian film theoretician who lived primarily in France.

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Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray (2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and composer.

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Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein

Sidney Lewis Bernstein, Baron Bernstein (30 January 1899 – 5 February 1993) was a British businessman and media executive who was the founding chairman of the London-based Granada Group and the founder of the Manchester-based Granada Television in 1954.

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A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.

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Soviet occupation zone in Germany

The Soviet occupation zone in Germany (or label) was an area of Germany that was occupied by the Soviet Union as a communist area, established as a result of the Potsdam Agreement on 1 August 1945.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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The Canadian Encyclopedia

The Canadian Encyclopedia (TCE; L'Encyclopédie canadienne) is the national encyclopedia of Canada, published online by the Toronto-based historical organization Historica Canada, with the support of the federal Department of Canadian Heritage.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Toulouse

Toulouse (Tolosa) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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United States

The United States of America (USA or U.S.A.), commonly known as the United States (US or U.S.) or America, is a country primarily located in North America.

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University College London

University College London (branded as UCL) is a public research university in London, England.

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University of Oxford

The University of Oxford is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England.

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University of Warwick

The University of Warwick (abbreviated as Warw. in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England.

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Vancouver

Vancouver is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia.

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Victoria, Texas

Victoria is a city and the county seat of Victoria County, Texas.

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Voluntary association

A voluntary group or union (also sometimes called a voluntary organization, common-interest association, association, or society) is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement, usually as volunteers, to form a body (or organization) to accomplish a purpose.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Film_society

Also known as Cine-club, Cineclub.

, French New Wave, Galicia (Spain), Georges Franju, Germany, Henri Langlois, Hobart Film Society, Houston, Hugh Miller (actor), Illinois, International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Iris Barry, Irish Film Theatre, Ivor Montagu, Jean Cocteau, Jean Vigo, John Flaus, Ken Quinnell, Kolkata, List of film periodicals, Louis Delluc, Maitland, Florida, Maya Deren, Melbourne Cinematheque, Michael Thornhill, Montmartre, Montreal, Movie theater, Moviyana Film Society, Mumbai, Musée Dapper, New York City, Nice, Ottawa, Oxford University Film Foundation, Paris, Peoria Riverfront Museum, Peoria, Illinois, Poland, Public and private screening, Ranesh Dasgupta Film Society, René Clément, Ricciotto Canudo, Satyajit Ray, Sidney Bernstein, Baron Bernstein, Social network, Soviet occupation zone in Germany, Spain, The Canadian Encyclopedia, Toronto, Toulouse, United Kingdom, United States, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Warwick, Vancouver, Victoria, Texas, Voluntary association, Walter C. Mycroft, World cinema, World War II.

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Film organizations

Film societies

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