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, a semi-annual virtual film series for in-class discussions, 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 receive a grant of $2,400.
American Universities and Colleges faculty can Become a Member 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 Grant to help fund their very own French film festival on campus.— Access semi-annual virtual Film Series, available to members and their students online to build into in-class curriculum and discussions.— Invite Filmmakers for post-screening conversations with students, whether in-person or virtually.
Albertine Cinémathèque is thrilled to announce its Film Selection for 2024/2025 showcasing the best of French Cinema in the United States! This year’s selection includes two films by former Villa Albertine residents, Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania, and Our Body by Claire Simon, as well as Palme d’Or and Academy Awards winner, Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet, and France’s official entry for the 2024 Academy Awards, The Taste of Things by Trần Anh Hùng.
The Film Selection is composed of three distinctive parts:
— CONTEMPORARY FILMS— ALTERNATIVE LIST— CLASSIC FILMS
With 23 contemporary films, 6 classic films, 6 documentary films and 2 animation films, this new selection highlights the dynamism, diversity and high quality of French films and productions, and celebrates films by established filmmakers such as The Night of the 12 by Dominik Moll and The Beast by Bertrand Bonello, along with films by exciting newcomers like Banel & Adama by Ramata-Toulaye Sy and Coconut Head Generation by Alain Kassanda.
In honor of Jean-Luc Godard, the great pioneer of the French New Wave, we are offering a bundle including the fascinating documentary, Godard Cinema by Cyril Leuth, and Godard’s final work, a preparatory essay-trailer for his last project before he passed away in 2022, Trailer of a film that will never exist: Phony Wars.
Our classic selection features restorations of some of the most important French films, including this year, Contempt by Jean-Luc Godard and No Fear, No Die by Claire Denis, as well as films that are more rarely available such as Lumumba: Death of a Prophet by Raoul Peck and Messidor by Alain Tanner.
We are delighted to announce our Grantees who will be organizing a French film festival on their campus in 2024-2025 as part of Albertine Cinémathèque. We received many wonderful applications for festivals on campuses and it was again hard to choose between all those very interesting projects. Our Selection Committee has chosen to reward 42 French Film Festivals for their compelling program of events, the large support they will receive across many departments within the organizing university or college, and their diligent efforts to reach out to the community at large.
Albertine Cinematheque Grantees will be screening at least 6 films from our 2024-2024 Film Selection which includes two films by former Villa Albertine residents, Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania, and Our Body by Claire Simon, as well as Palme d’Or and Academy Awards winner, Anatomy of a Fall by Justine Triet, and France’s official entry for the 2024 Academy Awards, The Taste of Things by Trần Anh Hùng.
Congratulations to our Grantees and thank you to everyone who participated!
A special thank you to our dedicated University Committee members:Anne Kern (SUNY Purchase College), Sam Di Iorio (CUNY Hunter College) and David Gerstner (CUNY College of Staten Island)
Our next call for applications for Festivals in the academic year 2025-2026, will open on April 2025 with a new Film Selection which will be announced in early Spring. We would like to encourage all our Members to (re)apply and look forward to reading about the projects for your festivals!
List of Grantees for 2024-2025:
Atlanta Region:
North Carolina
Davidson College
Duke University
UNC Chapel Hill
Georgia
Emory University
Kennesaw University
University of West Georgia
Tennessee
Middle Tennessee State University
Rhodes College
Mississippi
Rust College
University of Mississippi
Alabama
University of North Alabama
Boston Region:
Massachusetts
Boston University
Brandeis University
Chicago Region:
Indiana
Ball State University
Iowa
University of Northern Iowa
Kentucky
Northern Kentucky University
Michigan
Michigan State University
Minnesota
College of St Benedict & St John’s University
Missouri
Missouri State University
Ohio
The Ohio State University
Baldwin Wallace University
Kent State University
Wisconsin
Beloit College
University of Wisconsin – La Crosse
University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Washington DC Region:
Delaware
University of Delaware
Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr College
Virginia
Virginia Military Institute
Houston Region:
Texas
University of Texas at San Antonio
Los Angeles Region:
California
LA Pierce College
Miami Region:
Florida
University of Tampa
New Orleans Region :
Louisiana
Loyola University New Orleans
New York Region:
Connecticut
Connecticut College
Southern Connecticut State University
Wesleyan University
New Jersey
Princeton University
Rutgers University
New York
Columbia University
Cornell University
La Maison Française NYU
San Francisco Region:
University of the Pacific
Hawai’i
Hawai’i Pacific University
Women’s Voices in French and Francophone Cinema
Albertine Cinémathèque’s second edition of the virtual Film Series will explore the works of women filmmakers in French and francophone cinema who capture issues related to feminism, racial discrimination, identity and climate change in all their social and human complexity.
Read more and register on the Film Club Agenda page.
Albertine Cinémathèque is made possible by:
Centre National du Cinema et de l’Image Animée (CNC)SACEM – Fonds Culturel Franco-Americain
Sandrine Neveux Program Officer cinematheque@albertinefoundation.org