The ARTE International Prize Award (€7.000) is an award given to the producer of the best CineMart project, to support its financial development. With this award, ARTE France Cinéma and CineMart hope to contribute to the development and production of independent filmmaking.
The jury members for this award in 2013 were Olivier Père (Head of Cinema) of ARTE France Cinéma and Annamaria Lodato (Head of Communications) of ARTE France; Petri Kemppinen (Board member) of Eurimages - Conseil de l'Europe; and Himesh Kar (Consultant) and Amy Richardson (Project Coordinator) of WorldView.
Overview winners ARTE International Prize Award:
2013
The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos, a production of Element Pictures (United Kingdom).
2012
Duncharon by Athina Rachel Tsangari (Greece), a co-production of Haos Films and Faliro House Productions (Greece), Maharaja Films (France) and The Match Factory GmbH (Germany).
2011
Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie (Romania/France), a co-production of Manekino Film (Romania) and 4 Proof Film (Romania).
2010
Layla Fourie by Pia Marais, co-production of Pandora Filmproduktion GmbH/DV8 Films/IDTV Film B.V (Germany/South Africa/the Netherlands)
2009
HIM by Lance Weiler, Seize the Media (US)
2008
The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology by Sophie Fiennes, The Kasander Film Company (UK/the Netherlands)
2007
A Rational Solution by Jörgen Bergmark, Hepp Film AB (Sweden)
Pieds nus sur les limagces by Fabienne Berthaud, Agat Films & Cie (France)
2006
A Mexican Story by Arturo Aristakisian, No Dream Cinema (Mexico/Russia)
Hei tie de ri zi by Wang Bing, Wang Bing Film Workshop / Aeternam Films (China)
2005
Five Worlds by filmmakers Sobhi al-Zobaidi (Palestina), U-Wei bin Hajisaari (Malaysia), Kamal Tabrizi (Iran), Homayoun Paiz (Afghanistan), Garin Nugroho (Indonesia) and producer leBrocquy Fraser Productions Ltd (Ireland)
Daratt by Mahamat Saleh Haroun, Chinguitty Films (France)