Young Juries Across Europe Screen Nominees GIRLS LOST, MISS IMPOSSIBLE and RAUF
The European Film Academy proudly announces and congratulates the three nominees for the EFA Young Audience Award 2016:
| GIRLS LOST |
Three teenaged girls discover a mysterious drug that turns them temporarily into boys … | |
| MISS IMPOSSIBLE |
When you are a 13-year-old girl with an uncompromising way of looking at boys, school, family or friends, life takes on the appearance of a merry psychodrama. | |
| RAUF |
At the age of 11, Rauf finds himself living in a big platonic love. | |
The nominations were chosen by an international committee consisting of Melinda Boros (Clorofilm/Romania), Marjo Kovanen (Koulukino/Finland), Beata Marciniak (New Horizons Association/Poland), Marta Nieto Postigo (Drac Màgic/Spain) and Jakub Viktorin (Visegrad Film Forum/Slovakia).
On Young Audience Film Day on 8 May, the three nominated films will be screened to audiences of 12 – 14 year-olds in the following 30 countries across Europe:
AUSTRIA: Vienna | HUNGARY: Budapest | POLAND: Wrocław |
And it is the young audience that will act as a jury and vote for the winner right after the screenings. In a truly European vote, jury speakers will then transmit the national results live via video conference to Erfurt (Germany) where the winner will be announced in an award ceremony streamed live on yaa.europeanfilmawards.eu, a special website that offers further information about the nominated films and the participating cities.
As a response to the current situation in Europe and a contribution to integration, this year’s fifth edition of the EFA Young Audience Award also specifically includes refugee kids. It is the first time that Berlin participates in the initiative and it is here that the European Film Academy and the Academy of Arts will bring together Berlin pupils and “welcome classes” for refugee children. Together they will watch the nominated films, discuss them with each other, and, as members of the pan-European jury, vote for the winner. This special event is organised in co-operation with the Berlin Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts).
The EFA Young Audience Award 2016 is realised with the following partners:
AUSTRIA -Vienna: Austrian Film Academy, BELGIUM - Brussels: Bozar & Filem’On, BULGARIA – Sofia: Art Fest, CROATIA – Zagreb: Zagreb Film Festival, CYPRUS – Pafos: European Capital of Culture - Pafos2017, DENMARK - Aalborg: The Centre for Educational Resources, ESTONIA – Tallinn: Estonian Film Institute, GEORGIA – Tbilisi: Georgian National Film Center & Noosfera Foundation, GERMANY – Berlin: Academy of Arts, GERMANY – Erfurt: German Children’s Media Foundation Golden Sparrow, GREECE – Athens: Hellenic Film Academy, HUNGARY – Budapest: The Hungarian National Film Fund, ISRAEL - Tel Aviv: The Tel Aviv Cinematheque, ITALY – Florence: Niels Stensen Cultural Foundation, KOSOVO – Prizren: DokuFest, LATVIA – Riga: The National Film Centre of Latvia, LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg City Film Festival, FYR MACEDONIA – Skopje: Macedonian Film Agency, MALTA – St Julian's: Creative Europe Desk Malta, THE NETHERLANDS – Amsterdam: EYE Film Museum, NORWAY – Tromsø: Tromsø International Film Festival, POLAND – Wrocław: New Horizons Cinema (New Horizons Association), PORTUGAL – Lisbon: Portuguese Academy of Film & ICA, ROMANIA - Cluj-Napoca: EducaTIFF, SERBIA – Belgrade: Film Center Serbia, SLOVAKIA – Bratislava: Visegrad Film Forum, SLOVENIA – Izola: Otok, SPAIN – Avilés: Niemeyer Center, SPAIN – Barcelona: Filmoteca de Catalunya, TURKEY, Antalya: Yapimlab, UK – London: BFI, UKRAINE – Kiev: Children KinoFest.
The EFA Young Audience Award is organised and presented by the European Film Academy and EFA Productions with the support of the Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM). The national Young Audience Film Day events are organised with the support of the respective national partners.