Subsection 4: Conditions relating to aid intensity

The amount of aid for the production and preparation of a given audiovisual work may not exceed 40% of the final cost of that work and, in the case of an international co-production, 40% of the French participation.The aid may not have the effect of increasing the total public financial aid to more than 50% of the final cost of the work in question and, in the case of an…

Derogations from the 50% threshold may be granted by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, up to a limit of 60% and at the justified request of the production company, for difficult or low-budget audiovisual works.The limit stipulated in the first paragraph is raised to 80% for difficult works in the creative documentary genre, eligible for selective financial aid for production and preparation, whose…