10:30–11:15 — Making a Filmmaker

How different film schools shape artistic voice, craft and practice

Film schools are built on very different ideas of what a filmmaker is and how one should be educated. Some are organised around specialised professional roles; others begin with individual artistic practice, experimentation or work across disciplines.

This conversation brings together representatives and alumni from Norwegian and French film schools to look at how pedagogy, institutional structure and working methods shape not only what students learn, the kinds of films they go on to make and eventually the future of Cinema and filmmaking.

Key questions

- What kind of filmmaker does each school seek to educate?
- Which methods are central: production, mentoring, critique, theory, experimentation or artistic research?
- What is gained — and lost — through specialisation?
- How does a school’s structure influence the films its students make?
- When filmmaking tools are increasingly accessible, what can a film school offer that independent practice cannot?

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Panelists:
Ragna Lindboe — Norwegian Film School: Head of Department
Katja Eyde Jacobsen – Filmkunstskolen i Kabelvåg: Head of Department
Ghassan Koteit – ENS Lumière: Director of Study
Le Fresnoy – Attendee TBA

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11:30–12:15 — Teaching Cinema in a Changing World

What should film schools change — and what must they protect?

Film education is being reshaped by new technologies, changing production models, economic pressures and shifts in how films are made and experienced.

How should film schools respond without simply following every new development? This conversation looks at what should evolve, what should be resisted, and what film education must continue to protect when the future of filmmaking is increasingly difficult to predict.

Key questions‍

- Which technological, social and economic changes are having the greatest impact on film education?
- Which skills and forms of knowledge are becoming more important — and which risk disappearing?
- How should AI and new production technologies enter film education?
- What should film schools adapt to, and what should they actively resist?
- Should film schools prepare students for the future of cinema — or help them invent it?

Panelists:
Kristiania - Attendee TBA
Ragna Lindboe — Norwegian Film School
Ghassan Koteit – ENS Lumière: Director of Study
Le Fresnoy – Attendee TBA
La Fémis – Attendee TBA

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