A reference in world art-house cinema, mk2 is a family-owned company founded by Marin Karmitz in 1974 and now run by his sons Nathanaël and Elisha Karmitz. mk2 promotes quality filmmaking, operates its cinemas as modern agoras and supports creative discovery. mk2 promotes art-house cinema that takes a unique critical view of the world whilst reinventing the filmmaking process. In its theatres, mk2 strives to bring the best of world cinema to the widest possible audience, creating events, lectures and masterclasses in the aim of giving cinemagoers the tools to understand it. With 26 sites in Paris and Spain, mk2 is the biggest art-house cinema network in France and Cinesur the leading network in Andalusia, south of Spain. Its cinemas in France, which are designed as creative hubs, have included meeting places and food outlets for over forty years: restaurants, cafés and stores. Together, the mk2 network in France and Spain records over 9.5 million admissions every year.