Brussels, 21 January 2021 A welcome budgetary increase for Creative Europe MEDIA, an essential programme for the recovery and sustainability of the European film and audiovisual sector in COVID-19 times As organisations working across the European film and audiovisual sector, we represent film and TV producers, publishers and distributors of films both offline and online, directors, authors, screenwriters, ...

This is a recap of all the films who won the Art Cinema Awards in 2020. Thanks to all the festivals for hosting our CICAE jurors and to all the jurors for having spent some of their time to watch many films and to choose the winners (we know it's not an easy job to choose among so many good independent films). February Ciné Junior: Antigone, by Sophie Deraspe Berlinale Panorama: Digger, by Georgis Grigoraki ...

Tribune by François Aymé - 14 December 2020 There will be no cinema release at Christmas this year. People will be able to circulate freely until 8pm, but theatres, museums and circuses will remain closed. Despite the health arguments put forward by the public authorities, this decision is causing sadness, indignation, revolt and above all incomprehension in the cultural world and beyond. When vast shopping ...

FILM/AUDIOVISUAL SECTOR WELCOMES EC REVIEW OF UNJUSTIFIED GEO-BLOCKING IN LINE WITH LATEST STUDIES SUPPORTING TERRITORIALITY. CALLS FOR AN AV ACTION PLAN THAT BOOSTS EUROPEAN COOPERATION ON FINANCING AND DISTRIBUTION, INCLUDING THOUGH CO-PRODUCTIONS, TO INCREASE CIRCULATION OF CONTENT. The undersigned organisations representing key stakeholders in the film and audiovisual creation, production and distributi ...

The fifth edition of the European Arthouse Cinema Day took place last November 8th with many changes of route; initially about 700 cinemas registered, but due to cinema closures ordered in most countries, finally only about 200 venues could participate with live and virtual programs. Despite this we are happy to have been able to celebrate in some countries physically: Nigeria, Korea, Estonia, Finland, Denm ...

Press release, November 11th 2020 CICAE on the agreement on the EU budget Important signal for European film industry Demand: Recovery plans budget should be doubled in the crisis The International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas (CICAE) salutes the agreement reached by the European Parliament and EU Member States in the Council on the next long-term budget (2021-2027) and NextGenerationEU, the temporary ...

110 organisations have written to the European Commission and National Governments to call for culture to be an integral part of their national recovery and resilience plans and for the cultural and creative sectors to receive at least 2% of the Recovery and Resilience Facility budget, as called for by the European Parliament in its recent Resolution on the “Cultural Recovery of Europe”. [divide] Dear Presi ...

Press release, October 2nd  2020 SAVE ARTHOUSE CINEMAS - ENSURE FILM DIVERSITY CICAE appeals to all levels of government to support cinemas CICAE, the international confederation of arthouse cinemas, is very concerned about the future of cinema as a cultural venue. "If effective immediate measures for our sector do not take effect soon, bankruptcies can be expected" says Christian Bräuer, President of CICAE ...

Throwback to the 17th CICAE Training programme The 17th edition of the international training course "Art Cinema = Action + Management" organised by CICAE took place last month, from 31 August to 6 September, on the island of San Servolo in Venice. Within the context of the covid-19 pandemic and the restrictions imposed by many countries, the training took place in a hybrid format, in situ for 21 European p ...

The film Puntasacra by Francesca Mazzoleni, received the Art Cinema Award at the Annecy Cinéma Italien 2020 (online), which this year took place partly online and partly on-site. Film information Puntasacra Italy, 2020, 96 minutes Written and directed by: Francesca Mazzoleni Cinematographer: Emanuele Pasquet Genre: Documentary Production : Morel Film, Alessandro Greco (sales contact) grecodatabase@gmail.com ...