The 2nd Edition of the Young Audience Award at the National Cinema Museum

A unique institution in Italy, the National Cinema Museum will host screenings of the films selected by the European Film Academy for its second edition of the Cinema Massimo Young Audience Award. The three films will be presented simultaneously, on Sunday 5 May, in the cities of Copenhagen (Denmark), Erfurt (Germany), Izola (Slovenia), London (United Kingdom), Sofia (Bulgaria), Valletta (Malta), Wroclaw (Poland) and Turin, and evaluated by an audience of young people between 12 and 14 years of age.

The over 200 youths watching the Turin screenings, from 10.00 a.m. throughout the day, come from the “Italo Calvino” of Turin and “Guerino Nicoli” of Settimo Torinese junior schools, from the Cavour and Gioberti classical Lycées and from the Albe Steiner Institute in Turin. At the end of the screenings, the announcement of the winning film will be broadcast from Erfurt – thanks to a live connection via skype – during the awards ceremony.

The films in competition – selected by a committee of experts in cinema for children composed by Justin Johnson (United Kingdom), Tonje Hardersen (Norway) and Florian Weghorn (Germany) – are The Suicide Shop by Patrice Leconte (France, Belgium & Canada), UPSIDEdown by Bernd Sahling (Germany) and Sister by Ursula Meier (France/Switzerland).