Deauville American Film Festival (Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville)

Deauville American Film Festival

Festival du cinéma américain de Deauville

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The Deauville American Film Festival is devoted to American cinema, from major Hollywood productions to independent films, and is open to the general public. Lionel Chouchan and André Halimi created it in 1975, with the support of Michel d’Ornano, then mayor of Deauville, and Lucien Barrière. The City of Deauville co-organizes the festival with Hopscotch Cinéma, which provides artistic direction, and the C.I.D. Screenings take place at the Centre International de Deauville, the Cinéma du Casino Barrière and the Cinéma le Morny.

The Competition is reserved for American independent features, alongside premieres, tributes and the American Doc Stories section. Submitted films are features or documentaries of at least 75 minutes; short films are not screened. The D’Ornano-Valenti Prize honours a first French film. The dates for the 2026 edition, the 52nd, are 4–13 September 2026.

Country

France

Categories

Documentary, Feature

Awards and prizes

Grand Prize and Jury Prize, awarded by the jury; Revelation Prize; Critics’ Prize, awarded by film critics and journalists; CANAL+ Prize, awarded by five subscribers recruited through a contest; City of Deauville Audience Award, created in 2013; D’Ornano-Valenti Prize, established in 1991 by the member companies of the Motion Picture Association and awarded by a jury of Anglo-Saxon journalists to a first French film.

Festival rules

Submitted films must be feature-length fiction films or documentaries with a running time of 75 minutes or more; the festival does not screen short films. Films must be produced, wholly or partially, by a U.S.-based company or a company of American origin, and must be French premieres that have not participated in any major European film festival, unless otherwise decided by the Festival Director. Films are submitted via a streaming link through the dedicated platform; films in a language other than English or French need English or French subtitles. Selected films are screened in their original version with French subtitles, in DCP format; subtitling costs are the responsibility of the participants. There is no submission fee.

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