Perrine Val is a film historian. She is a research and teaching assistant at the Sorbonne Nouvelle. Her research focuses on transnational cinematographic exchanges during the Cold War. She published a book based on her Ph.D. thesis about the cinematographic relationships between France and the GDR, entitled Les relations cinématographiques entre la France et la RDA: entre camaraderie, bureaucratie et exotisme (1946–1992) (Villeneuve d’Asq: Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2021).