This year the CICAE training course, co-financed by Creative Europe MEDIA sub-programme, will take place from August 26th until September 1st, again on the green and peaceful island of San Servolo, in Venice (Italy). Content of the Training course In a context of rapid technological change and strong competition with diverse forms of entertainment, this training programme offers trainees a place to reflect ...

Press release 11.02.2019 Film or television festival? The Berlinale at crossroads The International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) criticises that the 69th edition of the Berlin International Film Festival has included the film “Elisa y Marcela” by Isabel Coixet in the official competition, without proof of the rightsholder, Netflix ensuring a regular international release in cinemas.     Should the f ...

In less than 1 month the 69th Berlinale (7-17 February 2019) will kick off, along with many events, conferences, cocktails and meet-ups. Here are some CICAE highlights for those days. Saturday, 9th Feb Meet the Art-Cinemas - Cocktail organized by AG Kino-Gilde, CICAE and MEDIA Salles 1-3pm at Oxymoron Café - Hackesche Höfe, Rosenthaler Str. 40-41, 10178 Berlin (S-Bahn stop Hackescher Markt - U8 stop Weinmei ...

Editorial by François Aymé, President of the French Art Cinema Association – Appeared in the newspaper of the association, Le Courrier Art et Essai – January 2019 Dear Joel, Ethan and Alfonso, Blood Simple, Fargo, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, No Country for Old Men, True Grit and many others when it comes to Ethan and Joel; Children of Men and then Gravity in Alfonso’s case. We have seen all your films. We w ...

The third edition of the European Art Cinema Day took place on 14th October 2018. It gathered 80,000 spectators in 650 cinemas from 39 countries across the globe**. Most of the participating cinemas were European members of the CICAE or Europa Cinemas, however cinemas from Colombia, Iran, America, Canada and Argentina also joined this special day to celebrate the diversity of European arthouse cinema.  Euro ...

Press Release Berlin, 14/09/2018 The International Confederation of Art House Cinemas (CICAE) is pleased to announce the appointment of Boglárka Nagy as the new General Delegate of the association. Boglárka joins the CICAE team after having spent 9 years at the French Institute in Romania: the last 5 years as programmer and film projects manager of Elvire Popesco Cinema in Bucharest, which received the Euro ...

PRESS RELEASE VENICE FESTIVAL WINNER INVISIBLE TO CINEMA’S AUDIENCE WORLDWIDE Berlin, 11/09/2018 As film-festivals accept in competition TV productions, cinema’s audience is losing out on art house masterpieces.  The International Confederation of Art Cinemas has recently called for a ban on movies produced or distributed by Netflix that were part of the official competition of the Venice International Film ...

VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ASKED TO SHOW CONCERN FOR ART CINEMAS Venice, 02/09/2018 The International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) is opposing the choice of the direction of the Mostra del Cinema di Venezia to present three movies belonging to Netflix in the competitions sections. The Venice International Film Festival presents in its official line-up three movies belonging to Netflix: “Roma ...

EUROPEAN ART CINEMA DAY EXPANDS FOR 2018 Directors Christian Petzold, Alice Rohrwacher, Michel Ocelot Confirmed to Participate as Ambassadors. Continued Expansion Beyond Continental Europe Includes US, UK, Middle East. European Art Cinema Day, set to take place worldwide on October 14th, 2018, has announced its ambassadors for this year's program as well as a series of ambitious new initiatives for its 3rd ...

Photo by Antonymon, CC BY-SA 4.0 #freesentsov Ukrainan filmmaker Oleg Sentsov has been sentenced in 2015 to 20 years in prison on charges of terrorism and arms trafficking. His “crime” from Moscow’s perspective is him having refused the Russian citizenship after Crimea has been annexed. He has been on a hunger strike now for over 100 days in his prison in Siberia. The European Parliament and numerous profes ...