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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1 : Support for world cinema in partnership with the Institut français

Article 712-1

Financial aid is awarded jointly with the Institut français to support the development of co-productions of works that are representative of the world's cinematographies.The conditions for awarding th…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 3: Conditions relating to aid intensity

Article 721-9

Exceptions to the 50% threshold may be granted by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée, up to a limit of 60% and upon a reasoned request from the foreign sales company,…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions relating to beneficiaries

Article 722-3

The beneficiaries of aid for the promotion of audiovisual works abroad are production or distribution companies.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Aid schemes established by intergovernmental agreements

Article 711-1

Financial aid is awarded within the framework defined by the agreement between the government of the French Republic and the government of the Federal Republic of Germany on support for film co-produc…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions relating to beneficiaries

Article 721-3

The beneficiaries of aid for the promotion of cinematographic works abroad are foreign sales companies which, as assignees or agents, have exploitation rights for the marketing of cinematographic work…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions relating to beneficiaries

Article 721-5

Foreign sales companies have exploitation rights for the marketing abroad of at least three feature-length cinematographic works for which production approval has been granted, for all modes of distri…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Chapter IV : Unifrance financial support scheme for foreign distribution

Article 724-1

Financial aid is awarded to support the operation of the financial support scheme for the distribution of feature films abroad set up and managed by Unifrance.The conditions for awarding the correspon…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 3: Advisory Committee

Article 723-10

The World Cinema International Distribution Aid Committee comprises five members, including a chairman, appointed for a renewable two-year term. A representative of the association "Unifrance" and a r…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Measures to boost film production

Article 916-7

Notwithstanding the first, second and fourth paragraphs of article 212-14, for aid applications submitted between 1 January 2021 and 30 June 2021, the amount of the direct grant is equal to 50% of the…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: Purpose and award conditions

Article 723-1

Selective financial aid is awarded to support the distribution abroad of feature-length cinematographic works that are representative of the world's cinematographies.

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