Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
The Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg is a publicly funded film school founded in 1991 in Ludwigsburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany, and is one of the most internationally renowned film schools in the world.
Sam Spiegel Film and Television School
The Sam Spiegel Film and Television School is a film and television school in Jerusalem, Israel that was founded in 1989 as the Jerusalem School of Film and renamed in honor of Hollywood producer Sam Spiegel in 1996.
Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK)
The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), officially the S. A. Gerasimov All-Russian University of Cinematography, is the world’s oldest film school, founded in 1919 in Moscow, Russia.
Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media
The Tokyo University of the Arts Graduate School of Film and New Media is Japan’s first national film school, dedicated to fostering filmmakers with the technical and creative capabilities to bring their narrative films to the world’s stage.
University of Television and Film Munich
Germany
ECAM (Escuela de CinematografÃa y del Audiovisual de la Comunidad de Madrid)
ECAM, launched in 1994 by the regional government of Madrid, offers three-year diplomas covering eleven film crafts, supplemented by MA programmes in screenwriting and documentary. Its Ciudad de la Imagen campus houses Spain’s first academic Dolby Atmos auditorium.
ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya)
Founded in 1993 and affiliated with the University of Barcelona, ESCAC is Catalonia’s leading film conservatoire. Its main campus occupies a converted textile mill in Terrassa, offering bachelor, master and postgraduate diplomas taught in Spanish and Catalan.
Tel Aviv University
Established in 1972 within Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of the Arts, the Steve Tisch School is Israel’s oldest degree-granting film institution. It grants BA and MFA degrees combining theory, screenwriting and hands-on production, with teaching conducted in Hebrew and English.
National Film School, Italy
Italy’s National Film School—formally the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema within Rome’s Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia—was created by royal decree in 1935, making it Europe’s oldest film academy. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Culture, it admits approximately 80 students annually across eleven specialisations.
Gobelins, l’école de l’image
Founded in 1964 by the Paris Chamber of Commerce, Gobelins is France’s elite multimedia and animation school, globally acclaimed for its 3D character-animation master’s and short-film residencies. Located in Paris’s 13th arrondissement and a satellite campus in Annecy, it educates over 1,200 students annually.