Film studios and backlots to film in France
14 of them, 2 with a photo and 11 with practical details the location publishes itself. 8 have a documented shooting history. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Sound stages, backlots, water tanks and virtual production volumes you can hire, with the crew base and power that go with them.
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.
Cité du Cinéma (Studios de Paris)
Studio & backlot
Studio campus in a converted riverside power station with sound stages, workshops and offices around a monumental glass-roofed nave.
Seen in: Lucy, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Nine sound stages from 6,506 to 22,271 sq ft (largest Stage 5, 201 x 111 ft, about 2,070 m2) with 47 to 52.5 ft to the grid; offices, artist green...
Studios de la Victorine
Studio & backlot
Film studios founded in 1919 in a walled park in Nice and run directly by the city since 2017, with eleven stages, workshops and an outdoor lot.
Seen in: Les Enfants du Paradis, Day for Night
Ciclic Animation
Studio & backlot
Animation studio and residency centre run by the regional film agency at Vendome, with shooting rooms for stop motion and drawn animation and post-production facilities.
Le Fresnoy
Studio & backlot
A national contemporary art school in Tourcoing built inside a former early 20th century entertainment complex, with production studios under a large suspended roof and rentable spaces for private events.
Production studios, a cinema, a restaurant, rooftop access, rooms available for private hire
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Les Studios de Saint-Menet
Studio & backlot
A former chocolate factory in Marseille's Saint-Menet district converted into roughly 30,000 square metres of sound stages, office space and three usable rooftop terraces across three buildings.
A former chocolate factory offering close to 30,000 m2 of floor area over several levels: building A, the former production hall, 21,700 m2 over 4...
Pôle Pixel
Studio & backlot
A creative-industries hub in Villeurbanne, near Lyon, combining a green screen studio and lighting stages with shared offices, co-working space and casting areas for film, animation and digital production.
Seen in: Studio 24, the site's original soundstage founded in 2002 by Roger Planchon, also hosts rehearsals for the Opéra de Lyon
Studio 24: a modular soundproofed stage of 900 sqm; Lumière 1 and 2 (added 2009): combined shooting surface of over 2,000 sqm with 700 sqm of dressing...
Provence Studios
Studio & backlot
A studio complex on 22 hectares near Martigues with sixteen sound stages up to 2,400 square metres, two 18,000 square metre backlots and ready-built prison, police station and courtroom sets.
Seen in: Titane, The Serpent Queen, Gaston Lagaffe
Over 15 stages across 26,000 m2 of studio space on a 22-hectare site, listed as 17 modular stages. Studio M07 2,450 m2 (49.51 x 33.10 m, 9.20 m...
Studio 24
Studio & backlot
Shooting and rehearsal stage in Villeurbanne used for film and television work, also hired for rehearsals and live performances, on the eastern edge of Lyon.
Studio de Tourcoing
Studio & backlot
A single soundproofed stage in Tourcoing, near Lille, run by lighting and studio rental group Transpa and fitted out with an in-house DIT and data lab for on-set post-production.
One stage of 500 sqm equipped with a DATALAB DIT service.
Studios d'Épinay
Studio & backlot
A four-stage soundstage complex on the site of the former Éclair film laboratories in Épinay-sur-Seine, now owned by TSF, with stage ceiling heights of up to 15 metres.
Seen in: Le Grand Bleu, La Reine Margot, Amour, The Substance
Plateau F: 1,500 sqm (42.35m x 32.40m); Plateau C: 800 sqm (36.60m x 23.85m); Plateau D: 800 sqm (39m x 16.30m); Plateau E: 200 sqm (18.35m x 11.50m);...
Studios de Bry
Studio & backlot
A large multi-stage production complex east of Paris, built by SFP in the late 1970s and 1980s and now run by Transpalux, with workshops and offices for feature films and television drama.
Seen in: Babylon A.D., Colombiana, Les Rivières pourpres 2, L'Odeur de la papaye verte
Stage B1: 1,000 sqm; B2: 700 sqm; B3: 700 sqm; Neo B4: 300 sqm; B5: 1,100 sqm; B6: 900 sqm; B10: 350 sqm (above B4); carpentry workshop 450 sqm; paint...
Studios de France
Studio & backlot
A television production group operating soundstages at three sites in Paris and Saint-Denis, used for game shows, entertainment formats and drama for French broadcasters.
Seen in: Star Academy, La France a un Incroyable Talent
Capacity: 2000 · Stages across three Paris sites, listed from 135 m2 to 2,000 m2: Studio 217 is 2,000 m2 (35.40 x 54.30 m, 14 m usable height, ERP audience limit...
Studios SETS
Studio & backlot
A production complex created in 1982 in Stains, just north of Saint-Denis, with soundproofed stages up to 800 sqm, a built-in tank stage and set-building workshops.
Seen in: Le Routard, Ad Vitam, De l'autre côté du périph
Studio 800A: 800 sqm, 8m ceiling; Studio 800B: 800 sqm, soundproofed, 9m ceiling, with a 2.3m deep pool built in; Studio 500A: 500 sqm, soundproofed,...
TSF Studios d'Aquitaine
Studio & backlot
A 400 square metre studio building run by a film equipment rental company in Bègles, in the Bordeaux metropolitan area, listed by the regional film commission for shoots needing a single controllable space.
A 400 m2 stage (Plateau 400) with a three-sided cyclorama and a motorised grid, plus a set-design workshop, actors' dressing rooms, production offices...
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Film studios and backlots elsewhere in Europe
Other kinds of location in France
- Theatres, arenas and venues 30
- Industrial and derelict locations 36
- Offices, schools and public buildings 23
- Transport and infrastructure 20
- 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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