GERMAN-FRENCH COOPERATION CONTINUES TO GROW: FFA & CNC SIGN PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT

The cooperation between the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and its French counterpart, the Centre national du cinema et de l’image animée (CNC) will become more intensive in the future: an agreement was signed during the 71st Festival de Cannes by the director of the CNC, Christophe Tardieu, and the chairman of the FFA, Peter Dinges.

The goal of this new cooperation is to further develop the growing bilateral relations between the two funding institutions which have already been in place for decades, including regular production meetings and a continuing exchange of common interests, positions and measures in German-French and European film policies. Additional bilateral initiatives are to be created and strengthened, in particular the organization and support of German-French cinema events. Both institutions intend to develop a German-French label of recognition which will be bestowed upon festivals which offer support for German-French cooperation. The initiative also plans to offer an employee exchange as well as the communication of current cinema information, statistics and studies.

The agreement is another step in the bilateral cooperations which were already established in 2011: the German-French Mini-Traité, the German-French Academy, the German-French Film Meeting, as well as the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris.