Aide aux cinémas du monde

Projects were submitted (before or after filming) before June 1st 2024

Producers whose projects were submitted (before or after filming) before June 1st 2024 should refer to the descriptions prior to this date, which can be downloaded here.

Filing procedures

Any application submitted outside of the scheduled dates will be rejected.

Applications can only be submitted online.

Fill the online form

Practical documents to download:

Full description

Instructions for online submission

Description

The Aide aux cinémas du monde (ACM) is a selective grant awarded to a production company established in France. It is reserved for feature-length fiction, animation or creative documentary projects intended for initial theatrical release in France and with a final screening time of more than one hour. It may be granted before filming or after filming. A production company cannot submit more than one application for support from each committee for the same ACM session.

The application for pre-filming support is submitted by the production company established in France. An exception may be made for projects submitted by production companies established in one of the countries listed in appendix 2 of the application form downloadable on this page.

The same project by the same director may not be the subject of more than two applications for pre-filming support.

The application for post-filming support is submitted by the production company established in France and only concerns projects that have not been selected for pre-filming support and that have not been screened for the first time in cinemas or publicly at a festival prior to the application. A project that has not been selected for support after filming may not be the subject of a new application.

Grants are awarded by the Presidents of the CNC and the Institut Français, based on the advice of committees comprising leading figures from the cinematographic industry.

The first committee is responsible for examining applications for pre-filming support for first and second feature-length films.
The second committee examines applications for pre-filming support submitted for works by directors who have already made at least two feature films.
The third committee examines applications for post-filming support.

Each year, 4 sessions are organised and around sixty projects are supported.

Eligibility

The projects submitted must be part of a coproduction between a production company established in France and a production company established abroad. Derogations are possible, at the moment of submission, for production companies established in the countries listed in appendix 2 of the support description (downloadable from this page).
The film must be directed by a foreign national (or, in exceptional cases, a French national, but in this case the film may not be shot mainly in the original French version or in a regional language in France).
The shooting language must be one of the official language(s) or language(s) in use in the foreign country(ies) of which the director is a national or in the territory where the shooting takes place.
Pre-filming support must be requested before filming begins.
Post-filming support must be submitted by the French production company in France and only concerns projects that have not been selected for pre-filming support.
Films whose final cost exceeds €2,500,000 must obtain a certification from the CNC with a minimum of 20 points on the financial support scale for foreign-initiated films and 25 points for French-initiated films..

All eligibility criteria are listed in the description of the scheme, downloadable on this page.

Amount of grants

The amount granted is capped at €300,000 for pre-filming support (€250,000 for projects submitted before June 1st, 2024).

For French-initiated works with a budget of more than €2,500,000, this amount is increased to €500,000 (€450,000 for projects submitted before June 1st, 2024). As for the definition of a French-initiated work, please refer to the description.

For post-filming support, the maximum amount granted is €70,000 (€50,000 for projects submitted before June 1st, 2024).

Important

Prevention against gender-based and sexual violence

Since January 1st, 2021, in order to validate the eligibility of any application for support from the CNC, production companies established in France must comply with the obligations relating to prevention and action against sexual harassment specified in the Code du cinéma et de l'image animée: article 122-36-1 of the general support regulation.
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> Declaration form to be downloaded and sent (completed, signed and accompanied by a certificate from the CNC that you have attended the "Preventing and taking action against gender-based and sexual violence" training course) to the following e-mail address: acm.declaration@cnc.fr

Standard clauses and authors' contracts

French authors' contracts signed on or after 12/12/2021 must include the standard clauses as defined by the inter-professional agreement of October 12, 2021.

An exemption from this obligation may be granted if the author is not a French national, lives outside the French territory and is subject to regulations incompatible with the inclusion of these standard clauses. In such cases, the exemption form must be attached to the contract.

Eco-conditionality of grants

From January 1st, 2024, a report on the carbon footprint generated by the French share of the film's production must be submitted to the CNC in order to benefit from CNC supports.

For the Aide aux cinemas du monde, only co-productions with a majority French share (over 50%) will be eligible.

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Concerning the pre-filming support:

A provisional carbon footprint must be submitted when the grant is assessed.
A final carbon footprint must be submitted at the moment of the request for payment of final instalment of the grant.

Concerning the post-filming support:

A detailed carbon footprint must be submitted when the application is submitted online.

Contacts

At CNC

Céline Leclercq (Head of department)
Tel. +33 1 44 34 35 73
celine.leclercq@cnc.fr

Roxanne Tour (1st committee)
First board
Tel. +33 1 44 34 36 50
roxanne.tour@cnc.fr

Chrystelle Guerrero (2nd committee)
2nd board
Tel. +33 1 44 34 34 29
chrystelle.guerrero@cnc.fr

Stéphanie Morgado (administrator)
Tel. +33 1 44 34 34 83
stephanie.morgado@cnc.fr

Simon Bordignon (administrator)
Tél. +33 1 44 34 36 50
simon.bordignon@cnc.fr

At Institut français

Claude Brenez (3rd committee)
Third board
Tel. +33 1 88 61 38 28
claude.brenez@institutfrancais.com
www.institutfrancais.com