Arthouse Traffic is a Ukrainian film company that specializes in the production and distribution of art cinema. Founded in 2003.
Arthouse Traffic produced 7 full-length feature films and more than 40 shorts. Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi's film THE TRIBE (2014) won the Grand Prix of Critics' Week of Cannes Film Festival, received the European Discovery Award from the European Film Academy, and was released in more than 40 foreign territories. DONBAS by Sergei Loznitsa (2018) became the opening film of the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Festival and won the Prize for the Best Directing. 107 MOTHERS by Peter Kerekes (2021), where Arthouse Traffic became the Ukrainian producer, won the prize for the Best Screenplay of the Orrizonti competition in Venice IFF and the Grand Prix of the Les Arcs International Film Festival. Oleh Sentsov's crime drama RHINO (2021) became the closing film in the official competition program Orrizonti and won the Grand Prix of the Stockholm Film Festival.
As a distributor, Arthouse Traffic has released more than 400 films. The winners of the Academy Award for the best film — PARASITE by Bong Joon Ho and GREEN BOOK by Peter Farrelly; winners of the Palme d'Or of the Cannes Festival — TITAN by Julia Ducournau, THE SQUARE by Ruben Östlund, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR by Abdellatif Kechiche and Ukrainian films — STOP-ZEMLIA by Kateryna Gornostay, MY THOUGHTS ARE SILENT by Antonio Lukich, HOMEWARD by Nariman Aliev are among them. The distribution company Arthouse Trafficrepresents in Ukraine films of such international sales companies as Studiocanal, Pathe Films, MK2 Films,The Match Factory, HanWay Films, Beta Cinema, Protagonist Pictures, PlayTime, Les Films du Losange, Latido Films.
Arthouse Traffic was the co-founder and general manager (2010-2014, 2021) of the Odesa International Film Festival. Since 2014, the film company has been holding the International Film Festival for children and teenagers Children Kinofest, screenings of which take place throughout Ukraine for an audience of more than 40,000 viewers. In 2017, the company has founded the annual film festival Kyiv Critics’ Week.
