Offices, schools and public buildings to film in France
23 of them, 11 with a photo and 6 with practical details the location publishes itself. 1 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Offices, town halls, courtrooms, libraries, universities and schools: the interiors most contemporary drama actually needs.
Shooting in France pays back through the Tax Rebate for International Production (TRIP / C2I) (30% (40% VFX-heavy)): work out the net value on your own spend in the incentive comparison.
Abbaye aux Hommes
Office, school & public building
Former Benedictine abbey whose 18th century monastic buildings house the Caen city hall, with a stone staircase, panelled halls, cloister and church alongside.
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Aitre Saint-Maclou
Office, school & public building
Enclosed timber framed plague cemetery courtyard of the 16th century in Rouen, with carved galleries of skulls and tools, an inner yard and adjoining rooms.
Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
Office, school & public building
Campus of more than 40 national residence halls in varied architectural styles on the southern edge of Paris, housing international students since the 1920s.
Capacity: 380 · 34-hectare campus with 47 architecturally varied buildings dating from 1925 onward, offered for professional events as well as filming; parking for...
Escal'Atlantic
Office, school & public building
Museum inside a block of the Saint-Nazaire submarine base that reconstructs the interiors of a transatlantic liner, with cabins, engine room, saloons and deck sets.
Grand Aquarium de Saint-Malo
Office, school & public building
Aquarium on the edge of Saint-Malo with ring shaped tank rooms, a walk through tunnel, a submarine ride and dark technical corridors behind the displays.
Institut Lumière
Office, school & public building
Museum in the former Lumière family home in Lyon, dedicated to Auguste and Louis Lumière and the birth of cinema, close to the site of their original factory.
Capacity: 300 · Hangar du Premier-Film: 300 sqm, seats 220 for a dinner or 300 for a cocktail reception, plus an adjoining cinema seating 269 (with 8 wheelchair...
Memorial de Caen
Office, school & public building
Museum of the Second World War built over a German command bunker, with a cleft stone facade, long exhibition galleries, an auditorium and gardens.
Memorial de Verdun
Office, school & public building
Battlefield museum rebuilt in 2016 in concrete and glass, with dark galleries, a reconstructed battlefield floor, a roof terrace and the wooded ruins of Fleury outside.
Musee de la Corse, Corte
Office, school & public building
Regional museum inside the Corte citadel, joining old barrack buildings to a 1997 gallery, with fortress courtyards, ramparts and mountain views.
Oceanopolis
Office, school & public building
Ocean science centre in Brest marina with three climate pavilions, large viewing tanks, tunnels and technical back of house areas.
Palais Fesch, musee des beaux-arts
Office, school & public building
19th century palace in central Ajaccio holding a large collection of Italian painting, with a courtyard, chapel, grand staircase and galleries over three floors.
Bibliothèque nationale de France, site Richelieu
Office, school & public building
Historic national library building in central Paris with a 19th-century domed reading room and ornate galleries, reopened after a long restoration.
Capacity: 300 · At the Richelieu site, the Salle Ovale seats up to 220 for a dinner or holds up to 300 for a cocktail reception. Other hireable spaces are the Hall...
Bibliotheque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg
Office, school & public building
Library of 1895 rebuilt inside in 2014: a stone entrance stair, a domed reading room, glazed floors around a central void and closed stacks, on place de la Republique.
Cap Sciences
Office, school & public building
Science centre inside Hangar 20, a former dockside cargo warehouse on the Garonne in Bordeaux, keeping the hangar's steel roof trusses over its exhibition floor, with halls listed to hire.
6 work spaces plus a terrace; kitchen equipment includes a service lift, large-capacity refrigerator, oven and washroom (own site).
Cinematheque de Toulouse
Office, school & public building
Film archive near the Saint-Cyprien quarter with two cinemas, a projection booth kept with 35 mm equipment, a reading room, film vaults and a brick courtyard.
Cite de l'Automobile
Office, school & public building
Mulhouse car museum built around the Schlumpf brothers' collection, with several hundred vehicles under one roof lit by rows of replica cast-iron lamp posts, its site publishing venue-hire terms.
Capacity: 1500 · Multiple hire spaces published: Espace Chefs-d'oeuvre 3,500 sqm; Salon Monaco 370 sqm (screen, speakers, wifi, video projector); Espace Course...
Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie
Office, school & public building
Large science museum in the Parc de la Villette built inside a converted 1960s abattoir hall, with the geodesic dome cinema La Géode standing alongside it.
Cite du design, Saint-Etienne
Office, school & public building
Design school and exhibition site in the former national arms factory, mixing 19th century workshop rows and a parade ground with a 200 m perforated aluminium hall.
Cite internationale de la gastronomie et du vin, Dijon
Office, school & public building
Dijon's former general hospital converted in 2022 into a food and wine campus, mixing 18th century wards, a chapel and courtyards with new brick and glass wings.
Ecomusee de Saint-Nazaire
Office, school & public building
Municipal museum on the old harbour covering shipbuilding, the port and the wartime destruction of the town, with displays, archive material and quayside views.
Faculte de medecine de Montpellier
Office, school & public building
Medical school founded in 1220 and housed in a former bishops palace, with a stone staircase, portrait galleries, a lecture theatre and an anatomy museum.
Lycee Gaston Monnerville
Office, school & public building
A working vocational and general secondary school in Cahors, listed by the local film office as an available shooting location for productions needing classrooms and school corridors.
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Palais Lumiere, Evian-les-Bains
Office, school & public building
Former thermal baths of 1902 on the lakefront, now an exhibition centre and library, with a glazed hall, mosaics, ironwork, a colonnade and a terrace over Lake Geneva.
Offices, schools and public buildings elsewhere in Europe
- Germany 42
- Spain 31
- United Kingdom 31
- Poland 18
- Austria 15
- Greece 13
- Italy 13
- Netherlands 13
- Bulgaria 12
- Croatia 11
- Czech Republic 11
- Romania 11
Other kinds of location in France
- Theatres, arenas and venues 30
- Industrial and derelict locations 36
- Transport and infrastructure 20
- Film studios and backlots 14
- Hospitals, prisons and institutions 15
- Houses and apartments 12
- Hotels and interiors 8
- Castles and estates 14
- Churches and monasteries 10
- Villages and countryside 8
- Modern architecture 8
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