Master in Cursus Distribution/Exploitation

Tuition is 458 EUR per year, and the application deadline is 2026-01-14.

The Distribution/Exploitation département trains film distribution and cinema-exhibition professionals over a two-year programme, run by directors Etienne Ollagnier and Eric Vicente and created in 2003 by Dominique Erenfried and Jean-Michel Rey. It admits eight students per intake (five specialising in exploitation/exhibition, three in distribution), and its diploma is officially homologated at master grade.

During the first trimester, students share a common curriculum with all other first-year cursus-principal students covering the concrete stages of making a film. From the fourth month, teaching turns to the specific practices of distribution and exhibition: a mix of theoretical and practical instruction (observation placements, festivals, study trips), professional skills-building, cinema culture, international experience and seminars, conferences and film-analysis sessions shared with other départements. The programme covers all forms of distribution and exhibition — research/art-house cinema, multiplexes, art et essai, majors and independent distributors — with the explicit aim of training mobile professionals able to move across these different contexts.