The French Immersion XR program revamped and expanded in 2026
After a very successful 2025, which saw French works selected for numerous festivals (80 grants were awarded to 64 artists and companies at 25 festivals and markets), the French Immersion XR Fund, co-financed by the CNC, Institut Français, and Unifrance, and operated by Unifrance, will be revamped and expanded in 2026.
With €45,000 in funding, this program now covers all international events, including those in the United States, taking over from the Villa Albertine program by offering creators and their producers travel grants when an immersive French work has been selected at leading professional events.
How it works: the French Immersion XR Fund allocates travel grants by reimbursing travel and accommodation expenses related to the selection of French works (with at least one French producer, even if a minority-French company) at any international festival or market. These reimbursements are capped at €300 for travel within Europe and €1,000 for travel outside Europe.
==> Join Unifrance
Unifrance is an organization that promotes and supports the export of films, audiovisual, and immersive works. Professionals and creators of immersive works can join Unifrance's Short Films and Immersive Works section, which allows them to benefit from all of the organization's support services. Membership fees are due for the calendar year.
Membersship advantages:
- Take advantage of Unifrance's support for immersive works: travel grants for artists and producers to attend international festivals and markets.
- Participate in our activities at major festivals and markets dedicated to immersive works: Venice, Clermont-Ferrand, Cannes, etc...
- Access our professional directory and all the features of our website that will give you greater visibility.
- Participate in certain organization meetings (general meeting, working groups) and stand for election to our “short films and immersive works” committee, the steering committee, or the executive committee when the bodies are renewed.
The Membership tab is accessible at the top of our homepage.
==> Study on the export of French immersive works in 2025
In 2026, Unifrance will repeat its statistical survey on the export of French immersive works. This study will provide an overview of sales in 2025.
As a reminder, export figures are essential for highlighting your expert work in promoting French creativity internationally. As a producer or distributor of immersive works, your involvement in providing complete and reliable data is essential to the completion of this study.
All data collected as part of this study will remain strictly confidential. Only aggregated and global statistical data will be published. The results of this study will be communicated to you upon completion, scheduled for September 2025.
==> French XR in Benelux @ IFFR 2026
Initiated by the Institut Français in the Netherlands, in partnership with the Ambassade de France in Belgium, Institut Français in Luxembourg, and Unifrance, the French XR in Benelux program will take place during the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) between January 30 and February 1, 2026.
Open to nine professional members of PXN seeking to promote one or more XR projects in search of distribution, as well as to identify distribution opportunities in the Benelux region, the delegation will accompany nine companies:
- AnimaViva Productions (Sylvie Carlier)
- Atlas V (Oriane Hurard)
- DA PROD (Jeremy Sahel)
- Dark Euphoria (William Board)
- Novaya (Emanuela Righi)
- Sacrebleu Productions (Claire Maillard)
- Swing Digital (Stéphanie Dphyras)
- Tamanoir Immersive Studio (Remi Large)
- Unframed Collection (Claudia Montes)
- Vision R (Jérôme Waeselynck)
In conjunction with the upcoming launch of a map of XR distribution venues and producers in the Benelux countries, in partnership with the media outlet XRMust, two professional delegations will be organized in the Netherlands.
The mission to the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) will take place from January 30 to February 1, 2026, and will allow the nine selected producers to discover the festival's Art Directions program, promote one or more XR works to distribution venues in the Netherlands, ベルギー, and ルクセンブルク, and identify opportunities for distribution in the Benelux countries.
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