[5] It was a collection of silent films, which, by the efforts of Komarov, were moved to the State Technical College of Cinematography.

On 2 October 1935, the Organizational Bureau decided to create a film-negative fund, because of a poor conditions of storage for films and other cinema materials.

On 18 March 1966, the profile cinema 'Illusion' in Moscow was opened especially for showing movies from the archive in one of the famous Stalinist skyscrapers.

In 1993, by the decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the Gosfilmofond was included in the State collection of especially valuable objects of cultural heritage.

The main objective of the festival is to show films from the state collection of the Russian Federation.