ATAFF to Present International Arthouse Cinema Award for the First Time Next Year
16.10.2026..
The Alexandre Trauner Art/Film Festival is honoured to host the Arthouse Cinema Award of the International Confederation of CICAE - Arthouse Cinema for the first time in 2027.
CICAE is an international organisation representing arthouse cinemas and professionals worldwide. Through this unique award, it recognises films of outstanding value to audiences and arthouse cinema exhibition.
From 2027, ATAFF will officially join the international network of festivals hosting the award jury and ceremony. Arthouse exhibitors from around the world will gather in Szolnok to form the CICAE jury and select the award-winning films.
Representatives of CICAE expressed their enthusiasm for the collaboration:
„We are particularly pleased that arthouse exhibitors from across the globe will come together in Szolnok to form the latest CICAE jury and present this unique award. We would like to extend our warmest thanks to the festival’s director, Éva Demeter, for her hospitality and her longstanding, extraordinary commitment to arthouse cinema.“
Éva Demeter, Festival Director, sees this as both an important professional recognition and an opportunity to bring outstanding films closer to audiences:
„We are delighted and honoured that ATAFF will become a meeting point for the international arthouse cinema community. The presence of international professionals will not only strengthen the festival’s industry connections but also create new opportunities for outstanding art films to gain visibility and reach audiences who value the unique cinematic experience that arthouse cinema offers.“