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Top 25 Film festivals based in France
RevenueBase identified 285 film festivals headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 1,980 professional contacts across them, including 175 with verified work emails. Paris is the largest hub.
This list covers film festivals headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026.
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The 25 largest film festivals based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Les Rencontres Audiovisuelles se consacrent depuis 1998 aux nouvelles images en région Hauts-de-France : • Diffusion : l’association produit des festivals (Festival International…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “ÉCU - The European Independent Film Festival is dedicated to the discovery and advancement of the best independent films from around the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CANNESERIES Saison 9 : du 23 au 28 avril 2026 CANNESERIES INDUSTRY: 23 - 24 - 25 avril 2026 CANNESERIES célèbre depuis 8 ans des séries du monde entier et réunit celles et ceux…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Depuis 1984, le Festival du Cinéma européen a su s’imposer comme un événement culturel majeur du Nord de la France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Au cœur du #FestivalNouvellesVagues : la jeunesse en lumière.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 26 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “La Rencontre Musique & Image Conférences, Tables rondes, Rencontres artistiques & Performances.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Section parallèle du Festival de Cannes, la Semaine de la Critique se consacre, depuis ses débuts, à la découverte des jeunes talents.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 23 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Depuis 1992, le festival a pour mission de promouvoir le cinéma et la culture latino-américaine auprès du public français et offrir des opportunités de distribution ou de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Créé en 1989, Le Festival Premiers plans d'Angers est un festival de cinéma consacré aux premières œuvres cinématographiques européennes, il met en compétition une centaine de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Every year since 1979 in Nantes, at the end of November, the Festival des 3 Continents offers a unique selection of feature films (fiction and documentaries) from Africa, Latin…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Avec près de 20 festivalier·e·s à chaque nouvelle édition et des invité·e·s toujours prestigieux·ses, le FIFIB - Festival International du Film Indépendant de Bordeaux, défend le…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Association implantée à Lussas (07), Ardèche Images œuvre depuis plus de 40 ans au développement, à la transmission et au rayonnement du cinéma documentaire de création.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The Strasbourg European Fantastic Film Festival, founded in 2008, is a major French platform for fantastic cinema, and one of Europe’s most comprehensive genre events.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “HOPSCOTCH Cinéma s’engage avec passion et organise son savoir-faire autour de ses trois métiers principaux - CRÉATION ET ORGANISATION DE FESTIVALS - RELATIONS PRESSE - RELATIONS…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Profitant des derniers rayons de soleil du mois d’août, le FFA célèbre depuis maintenant plus de 17 ans le cinéma francophone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 14 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Award winning production and distribution company Salaud Morisset was founded in 2012 by François Morisset.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 12 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Manifestation annuelle, La Fête du court métrage est née de la volonté de mieux faire connaître le court métrage au plus grand nombre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Montagne en Scène c'est l'un des plus gros événement "montagne" au monde, avec plus de 250 spectateurs par an dans 23 pays dans le monde!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 11 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Created in 2017, Miyu Distribution was born from the partnership between Luce Grosjean, and her company Seve Films, and Miyu Productions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le festival Court Métrange est LE festival du court métrage de genre.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Ecological & Social International Film Festival – Cannes Events not to be missed: 5th Edition (May 27 – June 1, 2025)"Au Fil des Saisons"(November 2025)” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “The International Short Film Festival of Aix-en-Provence -Festival Tous Courts- takes place every year in Aix-en-Provence and the municipalities of the Aix-Marseille metropolitan…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le festival de cinéma décontracté!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Printemps du Rire revient du 13 mars au 12 avril 2026 avec plus de 40 spectacles, une grande soirée au Zénith et toujours la même envie de partager l’humour sous toutes ses…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les Hallucinés est l’association de cinéma d’Audencia, dont le but est de promouvoir tous les cinémas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: film festivals. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names film festivals.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of film festivals, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name film festivals. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Film festivals based in France at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 285 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among film festivals, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “film festivals”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names film festivals), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among film festivals, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 175 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Film festivals by metro
- Film festivals in Paris82
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names film festivals, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many film festivals are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 285 film festivals headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Rencontres Audiovisuelles, headquartered in Lille, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most film festivals?
Paris leads with 82 headquartered companies, followed by Marseille (9) and Toulouse (8).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 175 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 285 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.