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After the end of the Second World War, American Major Steve Arnold is tasked with finding out which side the famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had decided to stay in Nazi Germany, was on. Was the legendary figure of classical music a Nazi?

The Furtwängler Case

Was famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, for or against the Nazis? Feature film biopic starring Harvey Keitel and Moritz Bleibtreu.

Taking Sides

Current Highlights

Paul, Rémy, Hélène and Rose play a game of truth or dare which gets more and more audacious.

by François Ozon

Truth or Dare

On Christmas Eve, Stéphane, Joëlle, Xavier and Sonia decide to go for a walk in the park overlooking the town where they grew up. As they stroll along the winding paths, they talk about pop music, their jobs, their sex lives and their disappointed ambitions.

By Mikhael Hers

On Christmas Eve, four chilhood friends go for a stroll and talk over about their lives.

Primrose Hill

Young family man Roland  decides to climb a famous mountain pass that bears his name and brings along his less than willing wife and two children.

By Jean-Marie Larrieu and Arnaud Larrieu

Young family man Roland decides to climb a famous mountain pass that bears his name and brings along his less than willing wife and two children.

Roland's Pass

A man trying to get through the Paris traffic meets a woman, somewhere between dream and reality.

By Catherine Corsini

La mésange

Didier is 28 and still lives with his parents. Locked away in his bedroom he no longer communicates with them. Can he reestablish a relationship with his ex-girlfriend?

By Stéphane Brizé

L'œil qui traine

Filmmaker Agnès Varda traces the architectural development of the French Loire valley châteaux through the ages, with witty asides and a jazz soundtrack.

By Agnès Varda

The architectural development of the French Loire valley châteaux through the ages, with witty asides and a jazz soundtrack.

Ô saisons, Ô châteaux

In a small French town, two young men meet in front of a church door on consecutive evenings, hoping to find a third person.

A Film by Alain Guiraudie

Heroes Don't Die

An elderly man returns to his former neighbourhood for his wife’s funeral and rediscovers old friendships.

By Mathieu Amalric

Sans rires

Two young soldiers desert their manoeuvre and enter the grounds of a private estate. There they meet a young girl and her cousin.

By Claude Miller

Camille or Catastrophic Comedy

A selection of shorts directed by well-known filmmakers in their early career including François Ozon, Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard.

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Short Films by Cinema's Greats

Shot across a range of dramatic landscapes, six short but intimate conversations take place between figures from Greek mythology. These demi-gods, heroes and other Pagan characters question their existence and seek to understand one another. A collection of encounters based on Pavese’s 1947 text Dialoghi con Leucò that thrive off themes such as destiny, life, memory, time, death and sacrifice.

A special ensemble of six short but intimate conversations between divine or heroic figures from Greek mythology.

Dialogues after the End

Nearly fifty years after his twin Camillo's death in 1968, filmmaker Marco Bellocchio gathers his family for a revealing lunch. As he speaks with relatives, Camillo's former girlfriend's sister, a psychiatrist, and a priest, Marco pieces together the fragments of a lost life. This intimate documentary delves into the depths of family memories while interweaving the narrative thread that has shaped Bellocchio's cinematic work.

Marco Bellocchio unveils his twin's hidden life in a raw, poignant documentary.

Marx Can Wait

In Estaque-Riaux, Marseille's gritty northern suburb, Gilbert and his crew grapple with a bleak future as factories shutter. Juggling odd jobs and bar hangouts, they confront a reality starkly different from their parents'. Amidst the struggle, Banana's resilience, Boule's vulnerability, and Mario's dilemmas embody the poignant clash between tradition and the harsh truths of modern life.

A Film by Robert Guédiguian

It’s the 1980s in Marseille, and Gilbert's future wavers as factories close.

Last Summer

Against an immaculate and bucolic backdrop of summer in Sweden, two teenagers find themselves falling in love with one another. This bittersweet romance is acclaimed filmmaker Roy Andersson’s debut feature.

A Roy Andersson film

Two teenagers find love in this bittersweet 1960s romance by Swedish filmmaker Roy Andersson.

A Swedish Love Story

Arthur Rimbaud, who has long given up writing poetry, is now a merchant in the Horn of Africa and plans on finally returning to France. All he needs to do is pull off his biggest deal yet, which involves selling rifles to King Menelif. But nothing goes according to plan. 

ArteKino Festival 2023

The adventures in Africa of legendary French poet Arthur Rimbaud.

Splendid Hotel

Two scriptwriter friends with opposing personalities fuss and fight as they cobble together a script for a modern political film. Their arguments seem endless, they constantly stray from the plot, but the story slowly takes shape around garage mechanics at Moliterno & co. who fight a multinational in order to save their business.

Classic French cinema

Two friends clash as they write a film about garage mechanics fighting capitalism to save their business.

Charge!

On the Marseille coast, a group of eccentric characters make the Blue Parrot bar their home. When the bar is in danger of going bankrupt, this unlikely tribe unites in action.

Classic French Cinema

Feature film. The eccentric characters who call the Blue Parrot bar their home try to save it from going bust.

Til Death Do Us Part

In Marseille's tough suburbs, mothers rally to form a committee, seeking to end the despair that drives their children into crime for survival. Under the local priest's guidance, they challenge the drug-induced chaos, aiming to dismantle the rival gangs that threaten their community's fabric and restore hope.

Mothers of a deprived suburb in Marseille unite against gangs and misery.

Money Makes Happiness

Félix is the manager of a luxurious Parisian hotel and during the first lockdown in March 2020, decides to start a clandestine business. He employs young escorts to cater to a handful of privileged clients who seek refuge in his palace of lust, on a mission to forget the deadly pandemic that is taking hold of the outside world. In a twisted story of complicity, a community of rebels is formed.

A community of covid rebels in a very French feature

A clandestine community finds lustful refuge in a luxurious Parisian hotel while the outside world grapples with a deadly pandemic.

The Rebellious

In Marseille, Marius meets Jeannette. In tribute to producer Pierre Chevalier, who died on 9 March, ARTE is showing this modern love story directed by Robert Guédiguian starring a formidable cast of actors including Ariane Ascaride, Gérard Meylan, Pascale Roberts and Jean-Pierre Darroussin.

In tribute to producer Pierre Chevalier, ARTE is rebroadcasting this modern love story set in Marseille.

Marius and Jeannette

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Films

A child who has never been allowed outside of the dark and rambling family home, sees a strange light which spurs him on to explore the world.

Last Door South

16-year-old Anna lives with her young mother and her constantly changing lovers. As summer comes to an end, Anna discovers her own sexuality.

Matriochkas

Young Lucas and his family come together on the beach in a strange funeral procession for their beloved Granpa Walrus, who overdid the sunbathing.

Grandpa Walrus

Who can you trust during a global pandemic? In a post-apocalyptic world, two sisters living in an isolated house in the woods, feel apprehensive when a stranger arrives offering help.

Shielded

Lieutenant Schweiger is rudely awakened from his cryogenic sleep by his captain. Repair work must be done on the exterior of the spacecraft. But Schweiger soon realises that this is not routine maintenance work…

Seed of Hope

In 2003, a young Ukrainian couple, like many others, are trying to get to Germany by road through Slovakia.

Atlantis, 2003

Victor, Cyprien and Guillaume have known each other since high school. One day, Victor tells them some news that will put their friendship to the test.

One and Thousand Nights

In a surreal world where people can deposit their hearts at the bank to avoid falling in love, Natália goes on an adventurous to find a man’s stolen heart.

Between the Shadows

A selection of eight short films that have won awards from film academies across the continent.

European Short Film

ArteKino Selection Zone Event

Was famous conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, for or against the Nazis? Feature film biopic.

Ryan Gosling has been in show business his whole life but it was not until 2011 with the critically acclaimed box office hits of ‘Crazy Stupid Love’, ‘Drive’ and ‘The Ides of March’ that Gosling became a star. Portrait of an actor more complicated than he may seem.   

Ryan Gosling has been in show business his whole life but it was not until 2011 he became a star.

Simply Ryan Gosling

For a long time, Harvey Keitel felt out of place. Born into a poor Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York, he was brought up by his strict grandfather who taught him religion and modesty. Plagued by self-doubt, young Harvey preferred the attractions of Coney Island to the synagogue and found solace in the cinema. After a stint in the marines, he would eventually find his way into the world of film. 
With extensive archive footage, this documentary explores the chequered career of one of America’s most charismatic film actors, famous for his tough guy roles in films by Quentin Tarantino and his good friend Martin Scorsese.

This documentary explores the chequered career of one of America’s most charismatic film actors, famous for his roles in films by Tarantino and Scorsese.

Harvey Keitel - Between Hollywood and Independent Film

Arthur Rimbaud, who has long given up writing poetry, is now a merchant in the Horn of Africa.
 

Marlon Brando was one of the most famous American actors of the 20th century.. His roles in "Apocalypse Now" and "The Godfather" remain stand out performances. Politically, he was particularly committed to the US civil rights movement but Brando's great love was science. In 1966, he acquired the South Sea atoll of Tetiaroa to make a nature sanctuary, dedicated to scientific research.

How star actor Marlon Brando found a new role in life on a French Polynesian island paradise.

Marlon Brando in Paradise

The 2023 Palme d'Or winner "Anatomy of a Fall" directed by Justine Triet is now showing in theatres. We revisit the filmmaker's distinctive and lively style. Triet is known for her remarkable feminist portraits. Her films "Age of Panic", "Victoria" and "Sibyl" form a turbulent body of work depicting contemporaryand urban France.

Justine Triet's films form a turbulent body of work depicting urban and contemporary France.

In Conversation with Justine Triet

Before becoming a filmmaker, Robert Guédiguian always thought he would be an activist who lived intensely. His cinema is like him: From Marseille, expansive and joyful, poetic and above all, human.

Robert Guédiguian talks through his forty year career as a filmmaker.

Conversation with Robert Guédiguian

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Classic nordic cinema with Roy Andersson's debut film

ZONE EVENT CINEMA

Driven by their desire for light and warmth, northern European teenagers travel to the Spanish Balearic Islands. They have to absorb the sun in order to bring it back - stored in their bodies - to their cloudy kingdoms. An artistic commentary on the real phenomenon of "balconing", which has led to tragic, self-inflicted accidents among young people travelling to Spain in recent summers.

Daydreaming So Vividly About Our Spanish Holidays

Driven by their desire for light and warmth, northern European teenagers travel to the Spanish Balearic Islands. 

La herida luminosa

Over her long and varied career, French actress Fanny Ardant has appeared in around 100 films with Alain Resnais, Antonioni, Costa-Gavras, Agnès Varda, François Ozon and many more. Documentary filmmaker William Karel paints a portrait of the intense and widely celebrated actress.

 Documentary filmmaker William Karel paints a portrait of the widely celebrated French actress.

Fanny Ardant: A Passionate Life

The Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund aims to demonstrate in a portrait film how money fascinates and generates all kinds of aberrant and absurd behaviours. Why possess everything while doing nothing for a sinking planet? This is the central question of a work that enjoys breaking everything.

Why possess everything while doing nothing for a sinking planet?

In Conversation with Ruben Östlund on Triangle Of Sadness

On the outskirts of a Swedish city, a group of men in suits look on unabashed as a truck full of naked adults and children drives them to their death. A man then takes the viewer on a tour of his life, showing his loveless marriage, mundane job and boring daily routine in an increasing anguished manner.  

A man recounts the stifling conformity his life represents in horror. The banality of evil, according to Roy Andersson.