ArteKino International Award
The ArteKino International Award is a prize of €6,000 for the producer of a standout project to support its development, sponsored by the European culture channel ARTE’s foundation for the promotion of arthouse cinema.
Past winners
2025
Inbetween Worlds by Diana Cam Van Nguyen (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
2024
A Distant House Smokes on the Horizon by Shengze Zhu (China/United States)
2023
Consider Vera by Marina Stepanska (Ukraine)
2022
Sorella di Clausura by Ivana Mladenovi (Romania/Serbia)
2021
A Dutiful Wife by Haolu Wang (China)
2020
Sleepwalkers by Radu Jude (Romania)
2019
La fiebre by Mateo Bendesky (Argentina)
2018
A White, White Day by Hlynur Pálmason (Iceland/Denmark)
2017
Martin Eden by Pietro Marcello (Italy/France)
2016
Birds of Passage by Ciro Guerra (Colombia)
2015
Luxembourg by Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy (Ukraine/Germany)
2014
Happy Time Will Come Soon by Alessandro Comodin (Italy/France)
2013
The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos (United Kingdom)
2012
Duncharon by Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece/France/Germany)
2011
Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie (Romania/France)
2010
Layla Fourie by Pia Marais (Germany/South Africa/The Netherlands)
2009
HIM by Lance Weiler (US)
2008
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology by Sophie Fiennes (UK/The Netherlands)
2007
A Rational Solution by Jörgen Bergmark (Sweden)
Pieds nus sur les limagces by Fabienne Berthaud (France)
2006
A Mexican Story by Arturo Aristakisian (Mexico/Russia)
Hei tie de ri zi by Wang Bing (China)
2005
Five Worlds by Sobhi al-Zobaidi, U-Wei bin Hajisaari, Kamal Tabrizi, Homayoun Paiz, and Garin Nugroho (Ireland)
Daratt by Mahamat Saleh Haroun (France)