2017/08/182021/05/01 ARTE

Our History

ARTE is a Franco-German and European Adventure. Public service streaming platform and TV channel ARTE supports creativity and culture in all forms. Programmes are available on all devices and screens throughout Europe and beyond. The founding fathers of ARTE believed that a joint television channel should bring French and German citizens closer on a cultural level and promote cultural integration throughout Europe.

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2026

Executives

Sylvie Stephan becomes Programme Director

January 2026

Sylvie Stephan becomes Programme Director of ARTE from 1st January 2026.

2025

Partnerships

ARTE expands its European partner network

On 3 December 2025, ARTE signs an association agreement with Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne Ukraine.

Programmes

On a Day in September

by Kai Wessel

Golden Nymph Award for Best Film, Monte-Carlo Television Festival, Monaco

Coproduction: ZDF/ARTE

Programmes

It Was Just an Accident (Yek tasadef sadeh)

by Jafar Panahi

Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival 2025, France

Coproduction: ARTE France Cinéma

Programmes

Petra Kelly – Act Now!

by Doris Metz

German Film Award for Best Documentary Film 2025, Berlin, Germany

One Future Award, Munich International Film Festival 2024, Germany

Coproduction: RBB/BR/ARTE

Programmes

Flow

by Gints Zilbalodis

Oscar for Best Animated Film, The Oscars (Academy Awards) 2025, Los Angeles, USA

César Award for Best Animated Film, César Awards 2025, Paris, France

LUX Film Price by the European Parliament 2025, Strasbourg, France

Best Animated Feature Film, Golden Globe Awards 2025, Beverly Hills, USA

Best Animated Feature Film, European Film Awards 2024, Lucerne, Switzerland

Co-production: ARTE France Cinéma

Programmes

I'm Still Here

by Walter Salles

Oscar for Best International Feature Film, The Oscars (Academy Awards) 2025, Los Angeles, USA

Co-production : ARTE France Cinéma

Partnerships

Association agreement with Sveriges Television

In April 2025, the Swedish public broadcaster SVT (Sveriges Television) joins ARTE’s network of European partner channels.

Executives

Change at the top of ARTE: Heike Hempel becomes president

In accordance with ARTE’s principle of alternating between the German and French sides, Heike Hempel becomes president of the broadcaster for a four-year term starting on 1 January 2025. Bruno Patino, who served as president of ARTE from 2021 to 2024, will become vice-president. He remains president of ARTE France.

2024

Programmes

Sterben

by Matthias Glasner

German Film Award for Best Fiction Film 2024, Berlin

Co-Production : ZDF/ARTE

Programmes

In the Blind Spot

by Ayşe Polat

German Film Award for Best Director and Best Screenplay (Ayşe Polat), German Film Awards 2024, Berlin, Germany

Coproduction: WDR/ARTE

Programmes

Johatsu – Into thin Air

by Andreas Hartmann and Arata Mori

VIKTOR Main Competition DOK.international, DOK.fest München – International Documentary Film Festival Munich 2024, Germany

Coproduction : BR/ARTE

Programmes

Olfa’s Daughters

by Kaouther Ben Hania

César Award for Best Documentary Film 2024, Paris, France

Arri Award, Munich International Film festival 2023, Germany

Co-production: ZDF/ARTE

Programmes

Dahomey

by Mati Diop

Golden Bear for Best Film, Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) 2024

Co-production: ARTE France Cinéma/ARTE France

Executives

Heike Hempel becomes Vice President of ARTE GEIE

January 2024

Heike Hempel, Head of the main editorial department for TV films/Series II at ZDF, becomes Vice President of ARTE GEIE from 1st January 2024. She succeeds Peter Weber, Head of Legal Affairs at ZDF.

2023

Partnerships

ARTE expands its European partner network

ARTE signs an association agreement with Latvian public broadcaster Latvijas Televīziju – LTV.

Executives

Ingrid Libercier becomes Programme Director

June 2023

Ingrid Libercier becomes Programme Director and member of the Management Board of ARTE GEIE from 15th June 2023.

2022

Celebrating 30 years of ARTE

30 May 2022

Born of a Franco-German partnership in 1990 with the signing of an inter-state treaty, it was with the launch of broadcasting on 30 May 1992 that ARTE, the European Culture Channel, became a reality for all French and German viewers.

Today, still faithful to its values of quality, creativity and diversity, ARTE offers content in six languages on a large number of platforms.

Programmes

Triangle of Sadness

by Ruben Östlund

Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival 2022, France

European Film Award for Best European Film, Best Director (Ruben Östlund), Best Script (Ruben Östlund) and Best Actor (Zlatko Burić), European Film Awards 2022, Reykjavik, Iceland

Coproduction: ZDF/ARTE France Cinéma

Programmes

Paradise

by Alexander Abaturov

IDFA Award for Best Cinematography, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2022

Coproduction: ARTE France Cinema

Programmes

Apolonia, Apolonia

by Lea Glob

IDFA Award for Best Film, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) 2022

Coproduction: DR/SVT/YLE/ARTE

Partnerships

ARTE strengthens its European commitment

Partnership agreements with Spanish and Lithuanian public broadcaster

On 29 June 2022 ARTE is entering into partnership agreements with the Spanish public broadcaster RTVE (Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española) and the Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT (Lietuvos nacionalinis radijas ir televizija).

By doing so, it is strengthening its Europe-wide commitment true to its mission “to promote understanding and bring the peoples of Europe together.”

Programmes

A House Made of Splinters

by Simon Lereng Wilmont

Directing Award in the category World Cinema Documentary, Sundance Film Festival 2022, Park City (Utah, USA)

Coproduction: MDR/ARTE

Executives

Emelie de Jong becomes Programme Director, Marysabelle Cote Administrative Director of ARTE GEIE

January 2022

Emelie de Jong becomes Programme Director and member of the Management Board of ARTE GEIE from 1st January 2022. Marysabelle Cote becomes Administrative Director and member of the Management Board.