The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography was also known as the Moscow film school of cinematography.

From 1934 to 1991 the Moscow film school (the oldest film school in the world) operated as an All-Union State Institute of Cinematography. The institute became a university in 2008 and has continued to be a university since.

Now as the school is a university there are many different faculties which have relation to the film industry.