Call for Applications: Albertine Cinémathèque Festival Grants 2025 – 2026
Film & TV
Holy Cow © Zeitgeist Films
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.
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.
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
Contact
Sandrine Neveux
Program Officer
cinematheque@albertinefoundation.org
In partnership with
Albertine Foundation
Previously known as FACE Foundation, Albertine Foundation is an American nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting French-American relations through innovative cultural and educational projects. In close partnership with Villa Albertine, the French Institute for Culture and Education of the French Embassy in the United States, Albertine Foundation promotes artistic, literary, and educational exchange and collaboration between creative professionals from both countries thanks to corporate, foundation, and individual support.
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Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC)
Created in 1946, the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC) is a public administrative organization, set up as a separate and financially independent entity which comes under the authority of the French ministry of culture and communication. Its principal missions are : support for the film, broadcast, video, video games, immersive productions and technical industries; promotion of film and television for distribution to all audiences and preservation and development of the film heritage.