The France-Romania 2019 Season ended in France on 16 April, and continues in Romania until 14 July 2019. French culture will be showcased there through its visual and stage arts, gastronomy and music...a look back at the highlights from France and a look foward to the opening of the season in...

In 2019, 30 recent European films, offered by the European Film Festival, were screened at many festivals around the world. Discover some of these European films in pictures!

The Short Film Festival, organised from 13th to 19th March 2019 in France and around the world, is an opportunity to rediscover the first works of well-known filmmakers and to encounter the new talents of the so-called “7th Art”. Discover our ten favourites from the 2019 programme.

A multidisciplinary artist, Nicolas Floc’h questions, through installations, photographs, films, sculptures and performances, our era of transition marked by flux, disappearance and regeneration. For the past ten years, he has been conducting research on the representation of the underwater...

This year, 17 film makers and producers from Southern or emerging countries, working on 10 film projects, take part in the Fabrique Cinéma de l’Institut français, a programme aimed at promoting cinema from emerging countries, for a 2020 100% on-line edition.

This e-Fabrique, patronized by Rachid...

Brunna Laboissière is a Brazilian director, in residency in Paris via the Institut français programme at the Cité internationale des arts. Following on from her first feature-length film Fabiana, selected at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, she is developing her next film Entre les temps (...

19 film-makers and producers from southern and emerging countries are taking part in the Institut français La Fabrique Cinéma this year. 10 films, undergoing development and financing, have been selected for the 2021 edition.

Between workshops, collective meetings and individual meetings with...

For 10 years, Noel Keserwany and her sister Michelle have been producing socio-political videos. Today they are well-known for their use of satire and humour.  

In addition to participating in conferences on art and politics, Noel Keserwany now works with NGOs to produce viral advocacy campaigns...

Launched by French President Emmanuel Macron and dedicated to the 54 nations of the African continent, Africa2020 Season drew to a close on 30 September 2021. After a rich and varied ten-month programme across both metropolitan and overseas France, relive the Season through ten of its highlights. 

Launched on 12 and 13 February in Paris, followed by the 16th in Lisbon and the 18th in Porto, the series of opening events delighted officials and the public who turned out in force to celebrate the creativity and talent of our two countries. 

With contemporary art, classical and contemporary...

The Institut français' Fabrique Cinéma promotes emerging young filmmakers from southern countries on the international market by supporting first or second feature film projects. As part of the Les Cinémas du Monde pavilion at the Festival de Cannes, La Fabrique’s participants from Africa, Latin...

A look back on the visit to France of Mr. Antonio Costa, Prime Minster of Portugal, as part of the France-Portugal 2022 Season and the inaugurations of the “L’âge d’or de la Renaissance portugaise” (The Golden Age of the Portuguese Renaissance) exhibition at the Louvre Museum, “Le reste est ombre ...

For the past 10 years, the Institut français and the CNC have been working together on Aide aux Cinémas du Monde (ACM). Since its creation in 2012, this selective grant, reserved for feature-length fiction, animation or creative documentary projects intended for first screening in cinemas, has...