Van Leer Jerusalem Film Center

In 1956, Lia and her late husband Wim Van Leer founded the first film society in Israel; later, in 1961 they set up the Israel Film Archive, which, in essence, was the seed of the Jerusalem Film Center.

The Israel Film Archive is the largest film archive in the Middle East and is dedicated to the collection and preservation of the art and history of film, television and video. Today, it contains over 30,000 prints including international cinema and all of Israeli cinema since the beginning of the 20th century. The Archive also has the largest collection of Jewish and Holocaust films in the world.

The Jerusalem Film Center is today supported by the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Trade and Industry, the Jerusalem Municipality, the Mayor of Jerusalem, the Jerusalem Foundation, the George Ostrovsky Family Foundation, the Van Leer Group Foundation and others.

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Van Leer Jerusalem Film Center