A cinema festival operates as an author and mediator of international communication, guaranteeing the existence of territories as a basis for «imaginary communities». It acts as a structure for cultural mediation, presumably participating in the contemporary map making of cultural exchanges. This article focuses on the analysis of French cinema festivals dedicated to specific cinematographies, more precisely from Latin America. It explores the festival as an act of communication in which mediation processes are set into motion, thus participating in the construction of «imaginary territories» of the «Latino American» A particular emphasis is placed on the processes of legitimization and internationalisation of these movies inside the field ...