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? [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Tonya Noyabrova
scheda film] by Ukraine’s Tonya Noyabrova (screened in the 2023 Panorama section), Somewhere Over The Chemtrails [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Adam Koloman Rybanský
scheda film] 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 [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Portugal’s Rodrigo Areia (unveiled this year in Rotterdam’s Big Screen competition), Amanda [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Benedetta Porcaroli
scheda film] by Italy’s Carolina Cavalli (screened in Venice’s Orizzonti Extra section last year), Pink Moon [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Floor van der Meulen
scheda film] by Dutch director Floor van der Meulen (awarded a Special Mention in Tribeca 2022), Prince [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Lisa Bierwirth
scheda film] by Germany’s Lisa Bierwirth (presented in competition in Karlovy Vary 2021), two Greek films (Medium [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Christina Ioakeimidi
scheda film] by Christina Ioakeimidi, which competed in Sarajevo in 2023 to claim the Cineuropa Prize, and Black Stone [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Spiros Jacovides), two British titles (County Lines [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Henry Blake and Inland [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Fridtjof Ryder
scheda film] 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.