Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Direct grants are awarded for the distribution in cinemas of certain long-running cinematographic works, depending on their broadcasting conditions.

Direct allocations are reserved for distribution companies that:1° Have distributed, in the twenty-four months preceding the application, at least three feature-length cinematographic works, each of which was shown in at least five cinematographic establishments at the time of its national theatrical release. Cinematographic works distributed by several companies are not taken into account;2° Do not have any direct or indirect capital link with a television service publisher, an operator running…

Long-length cinematographic works that meet the following conditions are eligible for direct allocations: 1° They have received investment approval or, if this has not been requested, production approval; 2° They have been financed by a French contribution equal to at least 30% of their final production cost; 3° They have not already been released in cinemas; 4° Be shown in between five and two hundred cinemas at the time of…