The CICAE is happy to announce that the film Mustang by Deniz Gamze Ergüven won the CICAE Art Cinema Award during the 23nd edition of Fimfest Hamburg. The festival took place in Hamburg from 1st to 10 th October 2015. Synopsis Early summer in a remote village in Northern Turkey. Lale and her four sisters are on their way home from school and stop off to play with some boys in the sea. This allegedly immoral ...

Main actor Koudous SEIHON (Mediterranea) with CICAE Art Cinema Award   The International Confederation of Art Cinemas is proud to announce that the ART CINEMA AWARD at the 12th Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival in Hungary went to "Mediterranea" by Jonas CARPIGNANO   Synopsis: Jonas CARPIGNANO Cast: Alassane Sy, Koudous Seihon, Annalisa Pagano (Italy/France/USA/Germany/Qatar, 201 ...

CICAE is happy to announce that the film "Koza" by Ivan Ostrochovský wins the CICAE Art Cinema Award in the Competition Programme at the 20th edition of the Vilnius International Film Festival. The festival took place from March 19th to April 2nd in Vilnius, Lithuania. Jury's decision:  "For founding successful way in showing tragic story with sense of humor and balance between fiction and tough reality. It ...

The CICAE is happy to announce that the film "Desde Allá (From Afar)" by Lorenzo Vigas won the CICAE Art Cinema Award in the section Cinéma En Construction at the 2015 edition of the Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse. The special section of Films In Progress took place on the 26th and 27th of March in Toulouse, France. Jury's decision:  "A fully accomplished vision, a bold and intense film, with great perfo ...

We have the pleasure to announce the winners of the CICAE Art Cinema Award at the 65th Berlinale. PANORAMA SECTION: The Jury members Marie Vassort from the Cinema “Le Central”, Colomiers (France), Lina Winkler from Kino Breitwand, Gilching (Germany) and Jacopo Chessa, director of the Italian association A.I.A.C.E. decided to award the Brazilian film Que Horas Ela Volta? (The Second Mother) by Anna Muylaert. ...

The CICAE is happy to announce that the film "Spartacus & Cassandra" by Ioanis Nuguet won the CICAE Art Cinema Award in the section International Competition at the 25th edition of the festival Ciné Junior. The festival took place from 28th January to 10 February in Val de Marne. Jury's decision:  "We decided to award the documentary film Spartacus & Cassandra, a film dealing with a difficult and al ...

The International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) is pleased to announce that the CICAE Art Cinema Award in the section Competition Fiction 2014 of the 32nd Annecy Cinéma Italien goes to Più Buio di Mezzanotte ( Darker than Midnight) by Sebastiano Riso. The festival dedicated to Italian cinema took place from the 8th to the 14th October 2014 in Upper Savoy, France.  Synopsis Davide is different from ot ...

The CICAE – the International Confederation of Art Cinemas – is pleased to announce that the CICAE Art Cinema Award for the best film in competition in the Orizzonti section at the 71st Venice Film Festival goes to “Heaven knows what” by Josh and Ben Safdie. The international jury, composed of Tobias Eckhard, Kino Traumstern Lich, Germany, Aidan Celeste St. James Cavalier Valletta, Malta and Sabah Benziadi, ...

The CICAE is glad to announce that the CICAE Art Cinema Award for the best film in competition at the 20th Sarajevo Film Festival went to Macondo by Sudabeh Mortezai. The 20th edition of the festival took place between 15 and 23 August 2014 in the Bosnian capital.  Synopsis Tucked in between the airport, motorway and the banks of the Danube in the Viennese district of Simmering, an entire world of its own h ...

The International Confederation of Art Cinemas is happy to announce that the prize CICAE Art Cinema Award during the 30th edition of FESTROIA went to "Someone you love" by Pernille Fischer Christensen. FESTROIA took place from 06.06.2014 to 15.06.2014 in Setubal, Portugal. Synopsis: World famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob is based in Los Angeles. He is a very successful man who has burned a lot of bridg ...