Bettina Blümner’s “Vamos a la playa” gained ArteKino Competition’s European Viewers Award at a ceremony co-organized by the long-lasting French style home Chanel in Paris.
Held at La Femis, Paris’ prestigious movie faculty, the occasion additionally included a dialog with French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski (“Different Individuals’s Youngsters”), adopted by a ceremony honoring Blümner and a screening of “Vamos a la playa,” in addition to a complicated cocktail which introduced collectively movie expertise, executives and college students.
ArteKino Competition is a aggressive on-line occasion going down in December and showcasing director-driven movies that are made accessible in six language throughout 32 international locations on the web site of Arte and its YouTube channel.
“Vamos a la playa” was one of many 12 function movies chosen for the newest version of ArteKino Competition, an initiative spearheaded by Remi Burah, ArteKino Basis president and CEO of Arte France Cinema, the movie division of the TV community.
“Vamos a la playa” follows backpacker millennials Benjamin, Judith and Katharina who journey to Cuba to search out Katharina’s lacking brother and discover themselves entangled in a passionate love triangle. ArteKino Competition’s Younger Viewers Award went to Franciska Seifert Eliassen’s Norwegian movie “Sister, What Grows The place Land Is Sick?”
A accomplice of ArteKino Competition since 2020, Chanel additionally groups with the occasion to provide talks with rising and renown administrators and expertise yearly. Up to now, the posh model has collaborated with ArteKino on 36 conversations.
Earlier motion pictures that obtained improvement financing from ArteKino Worldwide embody Mati Diop’s “Atlantics” which was co-produced by Arte France Cinema and went on to win Cannes Movie Competition’s Grand Jury Prize.
ArteKino Worldwide, a fund created out 20 years in the past to assist finance impartial European motion pictures, fingers out money prize awards at worldwide festivals, together with Berlin, Cannes, Les Arcs, Locarno and San Sebastian. In addition to “Atlantics,” earlier recipients of ArteKino Worldwide’s grants embody motion pictures by Celine Sciamma, Julia Ducournau and Katell Quilleveré. ArteKino additionally launched final yr a variety devoted to restored traditional movies, in collaboration with ZDF.
The whole choice of ArtKino Competition, Choice and Classics – comprising 43 movies from 24 European international locations — pulled 7.7 views in 2022. Based 8 years in the past, the ArteKino Competition itself drew roughly 2.7 million views in 2023.
Arte France Cinema is a significant backer of European motion pictures, notably Ruben Östlund’s Cannes’ Palme d’Or-winning “Triangle of Disappointment” and Diop’s Berlinale Golden Bear successful “Dahomey.”
La Femis movie faculty hosted ArteKino Competition:
