Since 2017, the Institut français and the French cultural network abroad organize Novembre Numérique (Digital November), the international digital cultures festival around the world. 
Novembre Numérique (Digital November) is an invitation to question the place of digital cultures in our societies...

Since 1985, the "Seasons" implemented by the Institut français have brought France into dialogue with more than 100 countries. The aim of this programme is to introduce a wide audience to the cultural diversity of a guest country and to promote a renewed and creative image of France abroad. In the...

During a visit to Paris in November 2021, Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Gitanas Nausėda decided to organize a Season of Lithuania in France in the fall of 2024.

This Season will highlight the culture and history of this country from both a heritage and contemporary perspective. It will allow to...

The Institut français and Capital Games are offering the French cultural network abroad and its partners a new “Games Made In France Satellites” support system to make it easier to organise events promoting French independent video games internationally.

The Institut français is once again extending the Animated Fête du Cinema abroad throughout October 2020 in association with the AFCA (French Association of Animated Cinema). For this major annual event, the French cultural network and its partners are invited to promote the excellence and...

Shoot the book! is a program of professional meetings designed to support the presence of French publishers on the major international audiovisual markets and to promote the audiovisual adaptation of French literary works of fiction.

Led by the Institut Français (Paris, France) in partnership with OCTA (Brussels, Belgium) and APCA (Madeira, Portugal) and co-financed by the European Union, the Archipel.eu pilot project, launched in June 2021, aims to preserve and promote culture in the outermost regions and overseas countries and...

In 2022, the Institut français and its two partners ARTE Education and European Schoolnet received the support of the European Commission within the framework of the “Film education and Audience development” call through the MEDIA sub-programme of Creative Europe to develop new actions within the...

After ten months of rich and varied programming throughout metropolitan France and the French overseas territories, hundreds of collaborations between French and African partner structures, thousands of events in the arts, sciences and entrepreneurship, the Africa2020 Season drew to a close on 30...

During the French Presidency of the Council of the European Union (FPEU) from 1 January to 30 June 2022, the Institut français will be working alongside French and European institutions on the one hand and the French cultural network abroad on the other towards the objectives defined by the...

Every year, on the last Thursday of January, the Institut français invites all places of culture and knowledge, in France and across the world, to celebrate the free circulation of ideas and knowledge.
Launched in 2016, at an exceptional evening in Paris which brought together major French and...

Charged with preserving and disseminating African film heritage, the Institut français holds one of the largest collections of African films from the 1960s to the present day.

Created in 1961 by the Ministry of Cooperation, the Cinémathèque Afrique contributes to the preservation, restoration...

The “VR Immersive Experiences” catalogue presents some forty original works at the intersection of virtual reality, live entertainment and visual arts. Available in English, it is designed to introduce partners of the cultural network (theatres, museums, cultural centres, art centres, festivals...

In autumn 2020, the Institut français is launching a major global digital campaign to promote French language learning !

The « Digital Mediation and Cultural Innovation » catalogue references some fifty organisations working in the cultural innovation and digital mediation sector in order to encourage the commercialisation of their knowledge and expertise abroad. Available in English, it addresses partners and...