Chanel-Backed ArteKino Festival Hands Out European Audience Award at Paris Ceremony
variety.comElsa Keslassy International Correspondent Bettina Blümner’s “Vamos a la playa” won ArteKino Festival’s European Audience Award at a ceremony co-organized by the iconic French fashion house Chanel in Paris.
Held at La Femis, Paris’ prestigious film school, the event also included a conversation with French filmmaker Rebecca Zlotowski (“Other People’s Children”), followed by a ceremony honoring Blümner and a screening of “Vamos a la playa,” as well as a posh cocktail which brought together film talent, executives and students.
ArteKino Festival is a competitive online event taking place in December and showcasing director-driven films which are made available in six language across 32 countries on the website of Arte and its YouTube channel. “Vamos a la playa” was one of the 12 feature films selected for the latest edition of ArteKino Festival, an initiative spearheaded by Remi Burah, ArteKino Foundation president and CEO of Arte France Cinema, the film division of the TV network. “Vamos a la playa” follows backpacker millennials Benjamin, Judith and Katharina who travel to Cuba to find Katharina’s missing brother and find themselves entangled in a passionate love triangle.
ArteKino Festival’s Young Audience Award went to Franciska Seifert Eliassen’s Norwegian film “Sister, What Grows Where Land Is Sick?” A partner of ArteKino Festival since 2020, Chanel also teams with the event to produce talks with emerging and renown directors and talent every year.
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