International Confederation of Art Cinemas

The International Confederation of Arthouse 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 which tries to support and to promote art cinema. It is the only international art cinema organisation of its kind.

History

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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.[1] 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.[1] 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.[2] Since May 2019, the new CICAE president is Christian Bräuer,[3] 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[4] in Cannes, Panorama and Berlin International Film Festival[5] in Berlin and the Sarajevo Film Festival.[6]

The organisation also organizes a training workshop for art house cinema exhibitors and managers with the support of the Creative Europe MEDIA Programme.[7][8][9]

References

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  1. ^ a b "By Laws | Cicae". Archived from the original on March 25, 2012.
  2. ^ "Personen | Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kino – Gilde deutscher Filmkunsttheater e.V". Archived from the original on 2012-06-11. Retrieved 2012-06-11.
  3. ^ "New Executive Board at CICAE, the International Confederation of Arthouse cinemas | Cicae". Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  4. ^ "Awards | Directors' Fortnight". Archived from the original on 2012-05-20. Retrieved 2012-06-11.
  5. ^ "Prizes of the Independent Juries". www.berlinale.de.
  6. ^ "Awards". sff.ba (in Bosnian). Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  7. ^ superadmin. "Art Cinema = Action + Management". www.creative-europe-media.eu. Retrieved 2019-06-17.
  8. ^ http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/education_culture/documents/calls/c_2010_5756.pdf S. 8
  9. ^ "Training CICAE | Cicae". Archived from the original on September 18, 2012.
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