Resounding success for the 9th edition of the European Arthouse Cinema Day.
On November 17th, audiences from all over the world gathered in more than 600 cinemas across a record-breaking 45 countries, sharing the Arthouse Values.
To see all participating cinemas, please click the link below.
This year’s Arthouse Cinema Day marked a significant milestone with 10 new countries on 3 continents joining the initiative:
In Asia : Bangladesh (and a notable expansion of the project in South Korea)
In South America: Chile, El Salvador, Brazil and Venezuela
In Europe: Iceland, Ireland, Greece, North Macedonia and Turkey
You can find below a selection of projects, as well as a complete drive with event descriptions and photos.
Our Patrons & Ambassadors
The 9th edition of the European Arthouse Cinema Day was supported by several filmmakers and actors as well as by several political figures. You can read their full presentation on our website.
Levan Akin: Filmmaker, Crossing
Renate Reinsve: Actor, The Worst Person in the World
Wim Wenders: Filmmaker, Perfect Days
Sepideh Farsi: Filmmaker, The Siren
Emanuel Pârvu: Filmmaker, Three Kilometers To The End Of The World
Sabine Verheyen, First Vice-President of the European Parliament was a Patron of this year's edition and delivered a statement : "This year's theme 'Democracy and Diversity' is of particular importance as it reflects the important role that cinema plays in promoting tolerance, supporting open dialogue and fostering intercultural exchange". Read the full version here.
Rachida Dati, French Minister for Culture, and Claudia Roth, German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media, were also Patrons this year.
What happened
Here, you can find the list of events that happened during the 9th edition of the European Arthouse Cinema Day on November 17th 2024 for which we have photos that you can use. For each are listed the copyright and contact person for the individual events. All general queries can go to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://artcinemaday.org/en
Wolf Kino – Contact: Verena von Stackelberg This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Double Bill: Dahomey and The Story of Ne Kuko + Talk on the topic of Restitution. The program consisted of both film screenings followed by a film discussion with director Festus Toll (via Zoom), moderated by art historian Jeanne-Ange Wagne.
Delphi Lux – Contact: Lysann Windisch This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
In collaboration with Mubi, we screened The Girl with the Needle (Cannes competition 2024) as a german preview, with a video interview with the director Magnus von Horn shot by the CICAE and Mubi screened at the end.
Cinema Paris – Contact: Martina Wiemers This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
In collaboration with Deutsche Hörfilm, specialised in Audiodescription, we organised a one-of-a-kind screening with only the Audiodescription of the film Elevator to the Gallows. With no pictures on the screen, the event invited filmgoers to experience the reality of a visit to the cinema for Blind and visually impaired people, as well as to enjoy the music composed by Miles Davis for the film.
Bundesplatz Kino – Contact: Martin Erlenmaier This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Screening of 'More than Strangers' and Q&A with Director Sylvie Michel
B-ware Ladenkino – Contact: We Are Here This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thanks to the initiative We Are Here, the film Pepe, winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlinale 2024, will be screened exclusively at B-ware!Ladenkino, followed by a gathering with food and drinks to engage in informal conversations. WE ARE HERE is an alternative distribution initiative dreamed of by Júnia Matsuura and Lediona Kasapi, a Berlin based duo with 7+ years’ experience in the film industry, bridging producers and distributors to exhibitors, focusing on audience development through special screening-events.
South Korea – Contact: 이마붑 Mahbub Lee This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
16 different European titles were screened across the 14th to the 17th of November in both Seoul and Daegu, with a Q&A session with cinematographer Park Hong-yeol after the screening of The Spirit Of The Beehive being the culmination of the program, which took place in the cinemas CGV ARTHOUSE, cinecube and emucinema, attracting 2,163 audiences in total and around 1,000 on Sunday alone. The program was spearedheaded by local distributor and long time CICAE collaborator mmfilm.
Sao Paulo – Contact: Ingrid Machado This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Thanks to Ingrid Machado, Alumni of the CICAE Training and her initiative Solax Film Club, the films Talking about Trees and The Siren will be screened at the Cinemateca Brasileira. Talking about Trees is a documentary from and about the Sudanese Film Group in their quest to reopen a local open-air cinema despite political resistance. The film offered Ingrid the occasion to engage the audience in a discussion on the political aspect of film screening.
Paris – Contact Anne Ouvrard for AFCAE This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
French Premiere of the film Sarah Bernhardt, la Divine in partnership with AFCAE followed by a discussion with filmmaker Guillaume Nicloux and actress Sandrine Kiberlain in the Cinéma du Panthéon which was live streamed to several cinemas in France
Munich – Contact Quentin Bucher
Filmmaker and Ambassador Emanuel Pârvu presented his film Three Kilometers before the end of the World, winner of the Queer Palm 2024 at the German Preview of his film in Arena Kino in Munich. He engaged in a lively exchange with the audience on the questions of challenging the status quo on homosexuality in Romanian Cinema and society at large, mentioning both the audience success of the film in Romania and online hate he and the film crew received, as well as his style of cinema which he describes as naturalistic.
Barcelona – Contact: Núria Aidelman This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
This was a special screening at Barcelona's Cinemes Girona: the premiere of Andrea Arnold's “Bird”, moderated by the Young Programmers of Moving Cinema. This is a group of twenty young people aged between 17 and 23 who meet weekly to view, comment on and program film sessions at festivals, cinematheques and other venues. It is part of the European Moving Cinema project run by the A Bao A Qu association since 2014. Over the past ten years, groups of Moving Cinema Young Programmers have joined the project at numerous festivals (Seminci, Alternativa, D'A, Punto de vista, Beldocs, Vilnius Documentary Film Festival, Isola Cinema Film Festival) as well as cinemas and film libraries in Spain, Lithuania, Slovakia and Portugal.
Austria – Contact: Dr. Magdalena Żelasko This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
In Vienna, Graz and Villach, the cooperation between Cineplexx International and EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal, eight European films with green focus – including TERRA, GENERATION CHANGE – WHO SAVES THE WORLD?, UNTIL THE LAST DROP and THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MY DAD – were presented with German subtitles and with free entry in the Village Cinema Wien Mitte, Actors Studio Wien, Geidorf Kunstkino Graz and Stadtkino Villach.
Aubenas – Contact Cathy Besse Géry This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The 2024 edition of the festival Les Rencontres des Cinémas d'Europe featured a dedicated program on November 17 with several films linked to the Day's theme, including Crossing Istanbul, Langue Etrangère, Wet Monday (winner of the CICAE Arthouse Cinema Award at the Gdynia Festival) and a meeting with one of the Day's ambassadors, French-Iranian Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi, where she discussed with the audience her career as a political filmmaker, and how she incorporated her story and activism in an animated film.
Join the Arthouse Movements' Call to Defend Democracy, Equity and Cross-Cultural Dialogue
The response to Arthouse Cinema Day has been incredible, with more than 400 cinemas in over 40 countries already signing the call and showing your support. The statement remains open for signatures.
We extend our deepest gratitude to our partners and funders, the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union, the German Federal Film Board (FFA) and Eurimages, for their invaluable support
