On Wednesday, December 3, 2025, ARTE and Suspilne Ukraine introduced the signing of an affiliation settlement, formalizing their partnership and opening a brand new bankruptcy of cooperation, in particular in co-productions. The settlement used to be signed in Strasbourg through Heike Hempel, President of ARTE GEIE, Bruno Patino, Vice-President of ARTE GEIE and President of ARTE France, and Mykola Chernotytskyi, Head of the Managing Board of Suspilne Ukraine.
“That is an peculiar day for ARTE – the affiliation settlement with the Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne Ukraine strikes us deeply and fills us with delight. Our two organizations percentage commonplace targets and values, which the groups at Suspilne Ukraine are protecting underneath essentially the most difficult cases,” stated Heike Hempel, President of ARTE GEIE.
Bruno Patino, Vice-President of ARTE GEIE and President of ARTE France, additionally expressed his pleasure concerning the settlement, mentioning, “This settlement strengthens ARTE’s community of spouse channels throughout Europe and paves the best way for a lot of formidable, high quality co-productions. It additionally displays our dedication to protecting democratic values and fostering cohesion in Europe.”
Mykola Chernotytskyi, Head of the Managing Board of Suspilne Ukraine, highlighted the significance of this partnership, announcing, “This partnership between ARTE and Suspilne Ukraine isn’t just an indication {of professional} collaboration, but additionally an impressive image of cohesion and shared values. In instances when Ukraine is preventing for its freedom and democratic long run, being a part of the Ecu cultural and media circle of relatives way an excellent deal to us. In combination, we will inform tales that attach other people throughout Europe.”
In line with the phrases of the affiliation settlement, the broadcasters will increase joint tasks in documentary filmmaking, cultural and cutting edge content material, in addition to fiction collection. ARTE and Suspilne Ukraine may even trade details about upcoming tasks to plot possible cooperation upfront. Moreover, Suspilne Ukraine will take part, in an advisory capability, within the conferences of ARTE’s Basic Meeting, Programme Committee, and Programme Advisory Committee.
The affiliation settlement will take impact on January 1, 2026. Lately, ARTE has supported and applied a lot of tasks with Ukrainian filmmakers, together with the “Technology Ukraine” initiative, which options twelve documentary movies through Ukrainian movie groups that discover the quite a lot of penalties of the warfare on Ukrainian society.
ARTE’s community of Ecu companions lately incorporates 13 participants: Suspilne Ukraine (Ukraine) – 2025, SVT (Sweden) – 2025, LPM (Latvia) – 2023, RTVE (Spain) – 2022, LRT (Lithuania) – 2022, Movie Fund Luxembourg – 2018, RTÉ (Eire) – 2016, RAI Com (Italy) – 2016, ČT (Czech Republic) – 2013, ORF (Austria) – 2001, YLE (Finland) – 1999, SRG SSR (Switzerland) – 1995, RTBF (Belgium) – 1993.
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