The government announces a fifteen-step plan to “rebuild cinema and image education”

The announcement follows Édouard Geffray’s report, delivered in September, which recommended strengthening cinema education in schools.

The government announced, Tuesday, November 25, a fifteen-action plan for “rebuilding cinema and image education”promising especially for “breed” classes with a flexible schedule specializing in cinema and doubling the number of students who benefit from the “My class in cinema” system.

“The goal is to enable our students to move away from the small screen and develop their critical thinking by moving to the big screen”Minister of National Education Édouard Geffray recalled during a visit to the cinema at the then high school in Créteil, lamenting that the younger generation “bombarded with content” on smart phones “whose mediocrity cannot be demonstrated”.

“We will bring our devices into a new era”During his trip this was emphasized by the Minister of Culture, Rachida Dati, who also promised this “starting from 2026, new resources of 8 million euros will be contributed by the Ministry of Culture and the National Center for Cinema and Animated Images” (CNC).

Among fifteen these steps, especially those desired by ministers “only one student in three, in two years” the benefits of the “My class in the cinema” system, says Édouard Geffray. Launching at the end of the year 1980, allowing students to go to the movies at least three times a year with their class. Two million students currently benefit from this, thanks to special ticket prices. Ministers intend to achieve 4 million students.

The government wants it too “breed” classes with a flexible cinema schedule, allowing for better teaching of the arts. There are currently nine, based on trials. The plan also plans to train teachers, with educational resource sites, “creating an inter-university (DIU) diploma in cinema education”accessible to teachers and “to other actors”and to create “municipal or departmental pilot cinema conservatories”.

This announcement comes following the submission of a report in September, written by Édouard Geffray, before his appointment as minister, which recommended that cinema education, “the right antidote” the addiction of the younger generation to screens, perpetuated and reinforced in educational institutions.

They also intervened in the context of declining cinema attendance. Attendance has returned to level “2000 in absolute values”recalled in September the president of the National Federation of French Cinema (FNCF), Richard Patry, was present during the ministers’ trip to Créteil.