France is introducing financial incentives to persuade its film industry to recruit more female talent.

Film productions with anywhere from four to eight women in key positions would be eligible for a higher government subsidy, Françoise Nyssen, the French culture minister, announced on Thursday. She said fewer than one in six movies currently qualified. Projects would be rated according to a point system — one point per female director, one point per female screenwriter, and so on — and any movie with eight points would be eligible for the maximum increase, 15 percent.

“I believe in financial incentives,” Ms. Nyssen said, announcing the package of gender-related measures at a conference on parity and diversity at the French National Film Board headquarters. “When things don’t change by themselves, or do so too slowly, it’s up to us to bring about change.”

Ms. Nyssen was following up on a pledge she made at the Cannes Film Festival in May to make film subsidies more dependent on the achievement of certain gender-parity goals.