The “Concours de la francophonie” is organised every year by the Institut français d’Ecosse since its creation in 2016.
There will be two competitions in the 10th edition in 2025:
– One for primary school pupils
– One for secondary school pupils.
For the first time the competition associates the Institut français d’Ecosse with the French Film Festival UK Learning Programme (FFF UK), which offers a selection of four films free of charge to all schools every autumn.
All primary and secondary schools in Scotland offering French and participating in the French Film Festival UK Learning Programme will be eligible to enter the “Concours de la francophonie”, in line with the rules below.
For the 2025 edition, we are delighted to have Alasdair Satchel, Scottish film and theatre maker as a patron! Alasdair has kindly accepted to attend the Prize giving ceremony so all winners have a chance to meet with him and share his passion for cinema and theatre!
Alasdair studied Drama and Theatre Arts, specialising in Playwriting at Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. His studies took him to the École Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where he studied the full two-year course. On returning to Scotland he wrote, directed and performed his own work with Perhilion Theatre Co, touring One Man Rant and Two Man Rumble internationally for some years. He has also worked as an actor and director for other companies in the UK and throughout the world. A French speaker, he worked with the Cinémathèque française to interpret their “Cinéma Cent Ans De Jeunesse”. Alasdair makes a podcast called What We Do in the Winter about the lives of the people of the islands around Mull and Iona. His films explore the nature of how communities express themselves. Alasdair is a founding member of Screen Argyll which exhibits films and delivers film education all over Scotland.
The competition is organized with the sponsorship of TotalEnergies and the Franco Scottish Society.