From now until June 5, apply for Albertine Cinémathèque festival grants, designed to expand access to French cinema and support film programming at American colleges and universities.
Join a special webinar on May 8 at 3pm EST to learn how to get a grant for your on-campus French film festival!
Albertine Cinémathèque’s annual film selection engages with the greatest issues of our time while nurturing an enduring love for this diverse and evolving art form.
Albertine Cinémathèque provides extensive resources to its members, including a list of films handpicked by its committee for on-campus events, and many opportunities to bring filmmakers into the conversation with students.
Albertine Cinémathèque continues to support French film festivals on campus with its annual Festival Grant. Grantees will be selected by a committee of university faculty and will benefit from a grant of $2,400.
We are excited to announce a new simplified process starting in 2025-2026: instead of transferring the grant money after completion of the festival, Albertine Foundation will book the films with the distributors on behalf of the grantees and will use the Grant money to pay the screening fees directly to the distributors.
American university and college faculty can become members of Albertine Cinémathèque for free!
Albertine Cinémathèque Members can:
— Book films from our Film Selection for on-campus events or festivals.
— Apply for our Film Festival Grants to help fund their very own on-campus French film festivals.
— Invite filmmakers for post-screening conversations with students, in-person or virtually.
Festival Grants
Albertine Cinémathèque is thrilled to announce its Film Selection for 2025/2026, showcasing the best of French cinema in the United States!
The Film Selection is composed of three distinctive parts:
— CONTEMPORARY FILMS
— ALTERNATIVE LIST
— CLASSIC FILMS
Albertine Cinémathèque provides US universities/colleges with a great selection of 22 contemporary films and seven classics (including one short film) for French film festivals on US campuses. This selection highlights the dynamism and plurality of French cinema represented by films by high profile filmmakers like Rithy Panh’s Meeting with Pol Pot and Francois Ozon’s When Fall is Coming, as well as films by acclaimed newcomers like Louise Courvoisier’s Holy Cow (Cesar for Best First Film and Best Female Revelation in 2025) and Payal Kapadia’s All We Imagine As Light (Grand Prix at Cannes 2024).
This year’s selection includes many award-winning films, such as Louise Courvoisier’s Holy Cow (César Award-winner for Best First Film and Best Female Revelation 2025), Mati Diop’s Dahomey (Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2024), and offers students the opportunity to discover some of the most iconic French films of all time, including The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy.
Our classic film selection spotlights the work of the celebrated filmmaker, René Clair, with two of his films, The Beauty of the Devil and The Crazy Ray, and offers students the opportunity to discover some of the most iconic French films of all time: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg by Jacques Demy, Army of the Shadows by Jean-Pierre Melville, and The Wages of Fear by Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Application & Calendar
Application Deadline: June 5, 2025
Apply here.
Contact
Sandrine Neveux
Program Officer
cinematheque@albertinefoundation.org
Image: Holy Cow © Zeitgeist Films