The International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE, from French Confédération Internationale des Cinémas d’Art et d’Essai) is an international non-profit association with address of record in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...
which tries to support and to promote art cinema. It is the only international
art cinema
An art film (or arthouse film) is typically an independent film, aimed at a niche market rather than a mass market audience. It is "intended to be a serious, artistic work, often experimental and not designed for mass appeal", "made primarily f ...
organisation of its kind.
History
CICAE was founded in 1956 by the national art house cinema associations of Germany, France, the Netherlands and Switzerland as an international lobby or pressure-group in order to support the art cinema sector and to protect the cinematographic diversity against the supremacy of so-called commercial filmmaking.
Since then it unites about 3000 independent as well as already nationally associated art house cinemas, 15 festivals and a certain number of film distributors from approximately 30 countries from all over the world in an international umbrella association.
Detlef Rossmann, member of the German art house cinema association ''AG Kino - Gilde deutscher Filmkunstkinos e.V.'', officiated as CICAE's president from 2002 to 2019. Since May 2019, the new CICAE president is Christian Bräuer, who is also the president of ''AG Kino - Gilde deutscher Filmkunstkinos e.V..''
The Art Cinema Award is awarded eleven times a year to art house films at certain cooperating festivals such as the
Directors' Fortnight
The Directors' Fortnight (french: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) is an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival. It was started in 1969 by the French Directors Guild after the events of May 1968 resulted in cancellation of the Cannes festi ...
in Cannes, Panorama and
Berlin International Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the fest ...
in Berlin and the
Sarajevo Film Festival
The Sarajevo Film Festival is the premier and largest film festival in Southeast Europe, and is one of the largest film festivals in Europe. It was founded in Sarajevo in 1995 during the siege of Sarajevo in the Bosnian War, and brings internati ...
.
The organisation also organizes a training workshop for art house cinema exhibitors and managers with the support of the
Creative Europe MEDIA Programme.
References
External links
Official website of CICAE
Film organizations in France
Non-profit organisations based in Berlin
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