Having launched in 2016 with the support of Europe Creative Media, with a view to promoting and helping circulate young European arthouse cinema, the ArteKino Festival is back for its 9th edition, which is unspooling between 1 and 31 December with works hailing from Portugal, the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, France and Poland. Twelve films are set to jostle on the festival agenda, which can all be watched free of charge on arte.tv and on ARTE’s YouTube channel. The line-up will be subtitled in six languages and will be accessible in 32 countries.

Stealing focus in the line-up are three films discovered in the Berlinale: Do You Love Me? [+lee también:
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entrevista: Tonya Noyabrova
ficha de la película] by Ukraine’s Tonya Noyabrova (screened in the 2023 Panorama section), Somewhere Over The Chemtrails [+lee también:
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entrevista: Adam Koloman Rybanský
ficha de la película] by Czech’s Adam Koloman Rybanský (gracing the 2022 Panorama line-up) and German documentary Nuclear Nomads by Kilian Armando Friedrich and Tizian Stromp Zargari (selected in the Perspektives Deutsches Kino section in 2023).

Joining them in the showcase are The Worst Man in London [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Portugal’s Rodrigo Areia (unveiled this year in Rotterdam’s Big Screen competition), Amanda [+lee también:
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entrevista: Benedetta Porcaroli
ficha de la película] by Italy’s Carolina Cavalli (screened in Venice’s Orizzonti Extra section last year), Pink Moon [+lee también:
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entrevista: Floor van der Meulen
ficha de la película] by Dutch director Floor van der Meulen (awarded a Special Mention in Tribeca 2022), Prince [+lee también:
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entrevista: Lisa Bierwirth
ficha de la película] by Germany’s Lisa Bierwirth (presented in competition in Karlovy Vary 2021), two Greek films (Medium [+lee también:
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entrevista: Christina Ioakeimidi
ficha de la película] by Christina Ioakeimidi, which competed in Sarajevo in 2023 to claim the Cineuropa Prize, and Black Stone [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Spiros Jacovides), two British titles (County Lines [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Henry Blake and Inland [+lee también:
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entrevista: Fridtjof Ryder
ficha de la película] by Fridtjof Ryder) and Agathe, Solange et moi by French director Louise Narboni.

Two prizes (endowed with 20,000 and 10,000 euros, respectively) are set to be awarded: online viewers will get to vote for the winner of the European Audience Award, while the Youth Jury Prize will be decided upon by 12 Europeans aged between 18 and 25 (in partnership with Erasmus+). A European Film Lover Prize will also be awarded to one of the festival’s voters.