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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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
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

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.

2021
Programmes
Flee
by Jonas Poher Rasmussen

World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, Sundance Festival 2021, Park City (USA)

Best European Documentary Film and Best European Animated Film, European Film Award 2021, Berlin

Coproduction: ARTE France

Programmes
Brotherhood

Golden Leopard – competition “Cineasti del presente”, Locarno Film Festival 2021, Switzerland

Coproduction: ARTE

Programmes
Natural Light (Természetes fény)
by Dénes Nagy

Silver Bear for Best Director, Berlin International Film Festival (Berlinale) 2021, Germany

Coproduction: ZDF/ARTE

Corporate Identity
Five awards for ARTE from the "Club des Directeurs Artistiques"
Paris, July 2021

Every year, the “Club des Directeurs Artistiques” awards the most creative design works and advertising campaigns. In 2021, ARTE receives five awards in the category “Motion Design”:

  • Gold for the Summer of Dreams trailer (2020)
    Design: Funny Bones agency, concept and direction: Samuel Bernardeau (ARTE), text: Delphine Werner (ARTE), voice-over: Barbara Carlotti
  • Silver for the Lockdown spot (2020)
    Concept and direction: Jean-Baptiste Séjourné (Gaston Production),
Programmes
Ahed's Knee (Ha'berech)
by Nadav Lapid

Jury Prize ex-aequo, Cannes Film Festival 2021, France

Coproduction: ZDF/ARTE France Cinéma

Programmes
Titane
by Julia Ducournau

Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival 2021

Coproduction: ARTE France Cinéma

Programmes
A hero (Ghahreman)
by Asghar Farhadi

Grand Prix ex aequo, Cannes Film Festival 2021, France

Coproduction: ARTE France Cinéma

Programmes
Memoria
by Apichatpong Weereasethakul

Jury Prize (ex aequo), Cannes Film Festival 2021, France

Coproduction: ZDF/ARTE

Programmes
Compartment No. 6 (Hytti nro 6)
by Juho Kuosmanen

Grand Prix ex aequo, Cannes Film Festival 2021, France

Coproduction: SR/ARTE

Executives
Bruno Patino becomes President, Peter Weber Vice President of ARTE GEIE
January 2021

Bruno Patino, President of ARTE France, becomes President of ARTE GEIE from 1st January 2021. Peter Weber, Head of Legal Affaires at the ZDF, becomes Vice President.

Executives
Tom Buhrow and Nicolas Seydoux take the chairmanship of the General Assembly of ARTE GEIE
January 2021

Tom Buhrow, President of Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) and Chairman of the German association of public broadcasters ARD, becomes Chairman of the General Assembly of ARTE GEIE. Nicolas Seydoux, President of Gaumont becomes Vice Chairman.

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