Young Juries Across Europe Screen Nominees GOODBYE BERLIN, MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI and THE GIRL DOWN LOCH ÄNZI
The European Film Academy (EFA) proudly announces and congratulates the three nominees for the EFA Young Audience Award 2017:
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GOODBYE BERLIN TSCHICK DIRECTED BY: Fatih Akin WRITTEN BY: Lars Hubrich PRODUCED BY: Marco Mehlitz fiction, Germany The trip of a lifetime and a summer Maik and Tschick will never forget. |
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MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI MA VIE DE COURGETTE DIRECTED BY: Claude Barras WRITTEN BY: Céline Sciamma PRODUCED BY: Max Karli animation, Switzerland/France After his mother’s sudden death, Courgette struggles to find his place in the world. |
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THE GIRL DOWN LOCH ÄNZI DAS MÄDCHEN VOM ÄNZILOCH WRITTEN, DIRECTED & PRODUCED BY: Alice Schmid documentary, Switzerland The pivotal summer for 12-year-old Laura who lives in a beautiful remote area in the Swiss mountains. |
The nominations were chosen by an international committee consisting of Illia Dyadik (Children KinoFest /Ukraine), Michael Habauer (Sächsischer Kinder- und Jugendfilmdienst e.V. /Germany), Selma Mehadžić (Zagreb Film Festival/Croatia), Marta Nieto Postigo (Drac Màgic/Spain) and Hilde Steenssens (Filemon/Belgium).
On Young Audience Film Day on 7 May, the three nominated films will be screened to audiences of 12 – 14 year-olds in the following 31 countries across Europe:
AUSTRIA: St. Pölten & Vienna
BELGIUM: Brussels
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA: Sarajevo
BULGARIA: Sofia
CROATIA: Zagreb
CZECH REPUBLIC: Prague
DENMARK: Aalborg
ESTONIA: Tallinn
FINLAND: Helsinki
GERMANY: Berlin & Erfurt
GREECE: Athens
HUNGARY: Budapest
ISRAEL: Tel Aviv
ITALY: Florence, Rome & Turin
KOSOVO: Prizren
LATVIA: Riga
LITHUANIA: Vilnius
LUXEMBOURG: Luxembourg
FYR MACEDONIA: Skopje
MALTA: Valletta
MONTENEGRO: Podgorica
THE NETHERLANDS: Amsterdam
POLAND: Warsaw & Wrocław
PORTUGAL: Lisbon
ROMANIA: Cluj-Napoca
SERBIA: Belgrade
SLOVAKIA: Bratislava
SLOVENIA: Izola
SPAIN: Barcelona
TURKEY: Istanbul
UK: London
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 sixth edition of the EFA Young Audience Award again specifically includes refugee kids. It is the second time that Berlin participates in the initiative and it is here that the European Film Academy 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 Yorck Kinogruppe.
Berlin, 8 March 2017
