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The Grande Bibliothèque is the main diffusion space of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) and our dedicated venue for the FIAF 2025 Congress. There you can meet the 2025 exhibitors, who will be located close to the coffee breaks.

Axiell

Axiell is a global portfolio of technology solutions serving museums, libraries, and archives. We work across borders, languages, and sectors to collaborate and share expertise that empowers our community. Axiell develops technologies that make culture and knowledge accessible to everyone, everywhere.

For museums, archives, and libraries this includes:

  • Collections Management Systems and Tools
  • Digital Asset Management Systems
  • Digital Engagement Platforms
    www.axiell.com

SKINsoft

SKINsoft is a 21st century IT lab specializing in the latest generation of collection management and publication software for a wide variety of cultural institutions: museums, corporate and private collections, oral history and film archives, and libraries. Today, our solutions are entirely secure and technologically unique: they are the result of scientific research and more than 42,000 hours of development carried out in collaboration with professionals working in the preservation and cultural heritage management fields. As a growing international company, we have many areas of expertise: multi-institution support, data harvesting, data migration, multimedia management, publication of collections on customized web portals, and virtual museum exhibitions. S-MOVIES is the latest-generation system from the SKINsoft application suite, entirely dedicated to film collections: modern, user-friendly and intuitive, it covers all needs for managing complex physical and digital collections, as well as linked items: objects, books, archives, multimedia and more.
www.skinsoft-lab.com

MWA Nova GmbH

MWA Nova: continuity, stability, flexibility

Experience, quality and innovation are three other main characteristics of their systems for audio and film postproduction and archive applications.
Established for years and built on an almost 100-years heritage on German engineering ingenuity, MWA Nova is a passionate leading manufacturer of versatile film and audio scanning equipment and a unique and solid partner to film archives and postproduction companies worldwide.
MWA Nova currently offers more specialist solutions for the actual physical transfer and replay of celluloid, nitrate and magnetic film for archival purposes than any other single manufacturer.
With our global experience we constantly develop new digitial Scan Solutions, as today with the next spinner S2 6k4 or 13,4k and the flashscan NOVA 4k with MWA Easy Wet Gate generation.
mwa-nova.com

Dancan

Dancan – the leading provider of materials for film handling and storage with with 50 years of experience.The founder Morten Jacobsen is now passing the baton to the next generation.
Dancan Film Cans: We are proud to present our program of stabilized plastic film cans.This is the only truly archival film can in the world.
Other products include: film cores, film leaders, motion picture film, film splicing tape,perf-fix tape and much more… Danchek acid detection strips for acetate and nitrate film.
www.dancan.com

STiL Casing Solution

The STiL Casing Solution: Help Preserve the Film Industry Anthology. The film community has long understood that images and sound recordings are important in the conservation of our social memory, which is essential to our identity and sense of belonging. Therefore, they must be preserved as part of our common heritage for future generations to enjoy. Founded in 1997 in Quebec City, Canada, STiL Casing Solution focuses on the culture of innovation, mutual benefit, and is very customer oriented. The history of cinema involves the preservation of its most precious material. We offer a comprehensive archiving solution that has made us distinctive and unique in the protection and conservation of the movie industry’s assets for the past 24 years.

Our Analog Media Preservation system enhance air circulation to minimize premature film degradation (vinegar syndrome) over decades and was the first system designed to counter the effect of time. Film has value as an object. As an industrial designer, STiL Casing Solution’s CEO has developed a product design methodology that reflects the same improvements, not only about how the case look but how functional and innovative it should be. Our techniques in film preservation enhances films conservation therefore extending its useful life. Since the company’s inception, we have been forging partnerships with prestigious institutions like the Academy of motion picture art and sciences and film studios worldwide. Our preservation technology reflects our primary mission of preserving the diversity of media and the multiple stories they carry in order that future generations know what came before.
stilcasing.com

Scan2Screen

Advanced Multispectral Digitization for Historical Color Films

Scan2Screen provides a cutting-edge, modular multispectral digitization workflow designed specifically for historical color films.

Developed from over a decade of scientific research into film digitization and historical film colors, our workflow integrates a state-of-the-art multispectral scanner with advanced image processing software. This technology is built on the pioneering research of Barbara Flueckiger, founder of the Timeline of Historical Film Colors, and the Scan2Screen team.

With headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland (Scan2Screen Switzerland GmbH), and Menlo Park, California, USA (Scan2Screen US LLC), as well as a dedicated lab in Berlin, Germany, Scan2Screen operates globally to preserve and enhance the rich legacy of historical cinema.
scan2screen.com

Media Migration Technology

Media Migration Technology of Chicago USA and CIR of Rome Italy, design and manufacture specialist equipment for the workflow of preservation, restoration and digitization of motion picture film including:

  • The TapeChek range of videotape cleaning and rejuvenating machines, available in most broadcast video formats.
  • CIR offer a wide range of film winding and inspection tables, and film splicing and repair devices. The new “BIAN” portable low-cost film winder will be demonstrated.
  • Ultrasonic and desktop film cleaning machines, film laboratory equipment and a host of other specialist machines are available. Factory refurbished Lipsner Smith machines are available.
    www.mmtfilm.com

MELS

MELS offers comprehensive, integrated film production services, including world-class soundstages, a permanent virtual production set, equipment rental, and a full range of postproduction, dubbing and accessibility services.

The company also boasts a renowned photochemical lab and a complete film restoration service, including digitization, colour grading and digital restoration of picture and sound. MELS is also the service provider for the Éléphant project, which is digitizing, restoring and making available Quebec's cinematic heritage. Nearly 260 films have been restored to date. mels-studios.com