The Grand Est makes its cinema at the Cannes Film Festival!

Proud of its support for cinematic creation, the Grand Est Region will participate in the 79th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, from May 12 to 23, 2026. This year, the Grand Est Region is once again in the spotlight with three films supported in competition.

A welcoming land for cinema and audiovisual

With its varied settings and its exceptional architectural and natural heritage, the Grand Est attracts many creators. Thanks to the commitment of the Region and its partners, the region supports numerous projects from writing to distribution, including manufacturing, post-production and promotion to the public.
The Grand Est thus affirms its ambition to be a privileged welcoming land for cinema, by encouraging eco-responsibility in productions and by actively supporting the emergence and development of genre cinema.

A regional delegation at the heart of the largest film market

As with Séries Mania, the Annecy International Animated Film Festival (MIFA), FIPA Doc and CPH:DOX (Copenhagen), the Grand Est Region will support, via the European FEDER program, a delegation of regional professionals: producers, authors, service providers, actors, players in immersive culture, members of the technicians’ network of the Grand Est and cinema professions.
Objectives: increase their visibility, broaden their development prospects and consolidate their presence on the global feature film market, while promoting the dynamics of the Cinema and Audiovisual sector in the Grand Est.

Discover the delegation of 16 professionals from the Grand Est accompanied to the 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Strong support for creation for cinema and audiovisual

With an annual budget of almost 9 million euros, the Region selectively supports writing, development and audiovisual and cinematographic production, whether animation, documentary or live action. In 2025, Around fifty filming projects were supported, carried out or hosted in the Grand Est.
The Region also runs Plato, a network launched in 2017 bringing together 11 local authorities (soon 12), providing local support for projects, including in the form of financial supplements.
A Contract of Objectives and Means was also renewed with the three local television stations: Canal 32, Moselle TV and Vosges TV, testifying to the regional desire to support local audiovisual creation and broadcasting.

A European cinema actor thanks to CinEuro

Located at the crossroads of Europe, between Paris and the banks of the Rhine, the Grand Est Region is a natural partner for European co-productions. It is leading two Interreg CinEuro projects, bringing together around forty French, German, Belgian, Luxembourg and Swiss partners around key issues in the sector.
The CinEuro 2026 Prize will distinguish two projects in development (documentary and fiction) particularly anchored in this shared territory. Finalists will be announced on May 17, 2026 during the Cannes Film Festival, for a awards ceremony scheduled for July 2, 2026 at Arte, as part of the Forum Alentours in Strasbourg (July 1–3).

A great dynamic around genre cinema

The Grand Est Region continues its commitment to genre cinema with the “Frissons in Grand Est – the genre cinema region” approach and its support fund dedicated to genre films, unique in France. This initiative is based on four major festivals:

• Gérardmer (Fantasy Film Festival)
• Strasbourg (European Fantasy Film Festival)
• Reims Polar
• War on Screen in Châlons-en-Champagne
as well as writing residencies dedicated to the genre.

Objective : further unite the sector, stimulate creation and strengthen the influence of the Grand Est as a key player in European cinema.

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Films in competition supported by the Grand Est Region

1. L’espè¨ce explosives

A film by Sarah Arnold – produced by 5 à 7 Films Coming soon to theaters in 2026 Quinzaine des Cinéastes (screening on Sunday May 17)
First feature film by Sarah Arnold, shot over 31 days in the Grand Est with a main location in Argonne, in Châtel-Chéhéry, supplemented by sequences in Charleville-Mézières and Novion-Porcien. He benefited from the services of Accurate Dream (Strasbourg). It is the first feature film to have benefited from the regional system dedicated to genre films “Frissons in the Grand Est”.
Synopsis : In the North-East of France, farmers and hunters are at war. The wild boars, too big and too numerous, are devastating the crops. Brown, cereal on the edge of the abyss, cracks and disappears. A year later, Fulda, an explosive police officer, and Stéphane, a psychologist in crisis, investigate. What they discover is beyond them. What is born between them too. Avec Alexis Manenti, Ella Rumpf, Vincent Dedienne…

2. The Corset

An animated film by Louis Clichy – produced by Eddy Cinéma In theaters October 14, 2026 Official selection – A certain look
This film benefited from the services of the Amopix studio (Strasbourg).
Synopsis : On a farm in the heart of Beauce, Christophe, 11 years old, follows his father’s steps. But at school, at home, on the tractor, Christophe leans… and falls. He is forced to wear a corset to go straight. While the farm goes through difficult times, Christophe grows as best he can. He discovers music and meets Clara, with whom everything seems to become possible from the age of 7.

3. The End

An animated film by Niki Lindroth Von Bahr – produced by Malade Production, Les Valseurs and Wired Fly Official Selection – short film
With services from the Amopix studio (Strasbourg).
Synopsis : Characters transit through a modern airport. In the cockpit, the frog pilot cannot reach the control tower. At duty free, a badger businessman is about to do something crazy. In a detention room, mole inspectors question a suspicious fly, while the dolphin salesman is on the verge of burnout. The catastrophe seems inevitable.

4. Fuel oil in the arteries (film accompanied by the Bureau des images and supported by the Eurométropole of Strasbourg)
A film by Pierre Le Gall — produced by Agat Films – Ex Nihilo In special screening — Critics’ Week
Partially filmed in the Grand Est, with six days of shooting in the Alsatian territory, between the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg, Urmatt, Beinheim and Haut-Koenigsbourg. The Strasbourg company Innervision also took part in post-production.
Synopsis : Étienne is a dedicated and passionate truck driver. Pinned to the road every week, to the detriment of his emotional life, he is content with brief interviews in parking lots with anonymous people. But when he meets Bartosz, a Polish trucker, his heart sinks. Despite incompatible itineraries, Étienne is ready to do anything to give this story time to exist.

A strong economic dynamic around filming in the Grand Est

In 2025, cinematographic and audiovisual activity in the Grand Est has generated economic benefits estimated at more than 17.5 million euroswith the hiring of more than 500 technicians and 3,500 actors and extras throughout the country.
49 fiction projects were carried out, representing 794 days of filming:

• Short films 17 98 days
• Feature films 12,159 days
• Television fiction 20,537 days

Répartition géographique :

• Champagne-Ardenne 200 25%
• Lorraine 268 34 %
• Alsace 326 41 %

A reinforced commitment in 2026 for creation and innovation

In 2026, the Grand Est Region continues its ambition to support the Image sector in all its dimensions, with two structuring actions:

1. Network of Grand Est mediators within cinemas : recruitment of five positions spread across the three Image Education Centers and the main itinerant circuits in the region. This network, coordinated by the Region in conjunction with ACIEST, has the priority mission of disseminating the works supported.
2. Strengthening support for Genre Cinemathrough writing assistance residencies, the specific “Genre” support fund and support for the four major regional festivals dedicated to this category, under the Frissons en Grand Est label.

PLATO, a network as close as possible to the territories

For the sake of territorial balance, the Grand Est Region continues to support the deployment of the Plato network with the support and commitment of the 11 communities which constitute it. A 12th community will soon join the network: the City of Charleville-Mézières.
Since its creation, the network has monitored more than fifty short films and twenty feature films. It represents, at the national level, the only integrated partnership network between the Region and local communities.
The twelve communities involved : City of Charleville-Mezieres, City of Epernay, Reims/Grand Reims, Châlons-en-Champagne, Troyes Champagne Métropole, Eurométropole de Metz, Nancy/Grand Nancy, Epinal urban community, Mulhouse Sud Alsace attractiveness agency, Colmar Agglomeration, Community of Communes Ardenne Rives de Meuse and Vosges Departmental Council.
These communities act as field relays for hosting filming and can provide financial supplements to projects, through the Region via the CNC contribution.

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A continued affirmation of cross-border positioning

As part of the Cannes Film Festival, CinEuro and its partners organize the CinEuro Meet & Greet, an annual networking event on Sunday May 17, 2026 between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Rado Plage (by invitation only).
This event allows cinema and audiovisual professionals to expand their network of co-producers and discuss current projects. The finalists for the CinEuro Prize will also be announced there.
CinEuro brings together the main organizations in charge of cinema and audiovisual policies in the regions of Grand Est, northern Switzerland, Baden-Württemberg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saare, Luxembourg, Brussels and Wallonia.
CinEuro Film Lab — Since 2023, a support program in 3 phases (inspiration, writing, support towards production) for projects dealing with regional content in the CinEuro space.
Prix ​​CinEuro 2026 — Awarded annually in the categories ‘’documentary and fiction.” The partnership territory extends from Reims to Stuttgart and from Brussels to Basel. The finalists will pitch their project at the Forum Alentours in Strasbourg on July 2, 2026.

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