Diploma in Arts, lettres et communication : option Cinéma at Collège de Rosemont in Montréal, Canada is a diploma in Film & Animation programme. The programme runs for 2 years. Teaching is in French. Tuition is CAD 3,740 per year for local students.
Arts, lettres et communication - Profil Cinéma is a pre-university DEC option at Collège de Rosemont giving students hands-on experience across the full filmmaking process. Each session, students produce short films and shoot projects on set, working through screenwriting, technical breakdown, set management, art direction, lighting, cinematography, and sound design, while exploring film genres and cinematic language through local and international films and series and engaging with contemporary global issues and filmmaking styles. Students screen their work at the Cinéma Beaubien, a commercial cinema in Montreal, during the Festival Images en tête in front of family and friends, and can take part in festivals such as the Intercollégial de cinéma and the Rendez-vous du cinéma québécois. The program trains students in technical roles including directing, camera operation, cinematography, art direction, sound design, and editing, using dedicated facilities such as a shooting studio, a multimedia lab, and a screening room. The program lasts two years for fall admission or two and a half years (five sessions) for winter admission, with no specific admission prerequisite beyond a secondary diploma. It suits students aiming for university studies in cinema, screenwriting, or related arts and communication fields; the college reports a 100% university-admission rate for the option.
Requirements
Admission Requirements: Admission requires a Quebec secondary school diploma (DES) or vocational diploma (DEP) and satisfying the general conditions of the Régime des études collégiales, per the programme's own admission page and the college's matching institution-wide baseline. This Arts, Letters and Communication programme, Cinema profile, states explicitly that no further course prerequisite is required. No English or French language-proficiency test score is published; the page sets no language condition beyond the DES/DEP itself and does not mention a portfolio or audition. The programme may admit international applicants, per the college's International Students page. Both Fall and Winter intakes are offered, with students admitted in Winter following a five-session path to the DEC instead of the usual four; the programme reports 100% university-entry access for its graduates.
Application Details
Start Date:September and January
Application Deadline:Domestic applicants apply through SRAM: Fall 2027 entry's first-round deadline is 1 March 2027; Winter 2027 entry opens 15 September 2026 with a first-round deadline of 1 November 2026. International applicants also apply through SRAM: the Fall 2027 deadline is 14 March 2027; the Winter 2027 international window already closed 31 May 2026, so the live one is Winter 2028 entry, closing 31 May 2027. Because of Quebec's international quota, Collège de Rosemont opened only seven programmes to international students for 2026-2027 — Techniques de l'informatique, Techniques d'administration et de gestion, Techniques de recherche et de gestion de données, Techniques d'aménagement et d'urbanisme, Arts lettres et communication, Sciences humaines, and Histoire et civilisation. Admission is not rolling beyond SRAM's rounds. These are institution-wide dates; this programme publishes no deadline of its own.
