Launched in 2016 by ARTE and Festival Scope, with the backing of Creative Europe and with the aim of showcasing and aiding the circulation of arthouse films by young Europeans, the ArteKino Festival is making its return with a 5th edition, unspooling 1 to 31 December. On the agenda are 10 feature films (coming courtesy of six women directors and five male directors) - of which five are debut works - which will all be made available online, free of charge, for up to 50,000 viewers (an average of 5,000 viewers per film), via artekinofestival.com and the ArteKino app. The programme will be accessible across 45 countries and in 10 languages (French, German, English, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Hungarian, Dutch).

Especially eye-catching in the first feature films category are Cat in the Wall [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
ficha de la película] by Bulgarian directors Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova (discovered in competition in Locarno last year), Lessons of Love [+lee también:
tráiler
ficha de la película] by Italy’s Chiara Campara (presented during the 2019 Venice Film Festival’s Biennale College Cinema line-up), Motherland [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película] by Lithuania’s Tomas Vengris (showcased in last year’s Tallinn Black Nights Festival) and Negative Numbers [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Uta Beria
ficha de la película] by Georgian filmmaker Uta Beria (well-received in Arras in 2019 where his project Love in the Time of Riot walked away with the Development Support Grant).

Three second feature films by women directors are also in the offing, two of which were unveiled in Locarno’s Filmmakers of the Present section last year: Ivana the Terrible [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Ada Solomon
ficha de la película] by Serbia’s Ivana Mladenović (which won a Special Jury Prize) and Love Me Tender [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película] by the Swiss-Peruvian director Klaudia Reynicke. Joining them in the selection is Son of Sofia [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Elina Psykou
ficha de la película] by Greece’s Elina Psykou, which bagged a Tribeca trophy in 2017.

Likewise set for the showcase is Full Contact [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película] by Dutch director David Verbeek, as well as two documentaries: the French production Sébastien Tellier: Many Lives by François Valenza and THF: Central Airport [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Karim Aïnouz
ficha de la película] by Karim Aïnouz (a co-production involving Germany, France and Brazil, which was presented in the Berlinale’s Panorama line-up of 2018).

In terms of the prizes, there are two (consisting, in total, of €30,000) which are due to be handed out at the festival: web users will get to vote for their favourite for the Audience Award, while the Young Audience Award will be adjudicated by a panel of Europeans aged 18 to 25 years of age.

The 2020 ArteKino selection is as follows:

Cat in the Wall [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Mina Mileva, Vesela Kazakova
ficha de la película] – Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova (Bulgaria/UK /France)
Full Contact [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película] – David Verbeek (Croatia/the Netherlands)
Ivana the Terrible [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Ada Solomon
ficha de la película] – Ivana Mladenović (Serbia/Romania)
Lessons of Love [+lee también:
tráiler
ficha de la película] – Chiara Campara (Italy)
Love Me Tender [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película] – Klaudia Reynicke (Switzerland)
Motherland [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
ficha de la película] – Tomas Vengris (Lithuania/Latvia/Germany/Greece)
Negative Numbers [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Uta Beria
ficha de la película] – Uta Beria (Georgia/France/Italy)
Sébastien Tellier: Many Lives – François Valenza (France)
Son of Sofia [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Elina Psykou
ficha de la película] – Elina Psykou (Greece/France/Bulgaria)
THF: Central Airport [+lee también:
crítica
tráiler
entrevista: Karim Aïnouz
ficha de la película] – Karim Aïnouz (Germany/France/Brazil)