28/07/2022 - 27 young film lovers will visit the Lido as part of the initiative organised by the Giornate degli Autori, the LUX Audience Award and Europa Cinemas, in collaboration with Cineuropa

This year will mark the 13th anniversary of the 27 Times Cinema project, which welcomes 27 young cinephiles from all EU countries to the Lido during the Venice International Film Festival. The initiative is a joint effort organised by the Giornate degli Autori, the European Parliament's LUX Audience Award and Europa Cinemas, in collaboration with Cineuropa.

The aim of the project remains the same: gathering European film lovers, all aged 18 to 25, to constitute the only official jury for the Giornate degli Autori (Venice’s parallel sidebar), in charge of assigning the GdA Director's Award, which carries a cash prize of €20,000 to be split between the director and the distributor of the winning film. The jury's deliberations will be moderated once again by Karel Och, Artistic Director of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, who has been serving as a tutor for the Giornate jury since the award was first instituted 9 years ago. On this occasion, the jury president will be the French filmmaker Céline Sciamma (read the news), director of acclaimed titles such as Petite Maman [+see also:
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interview: Céline Sciamma
film profile], who was among the finalists for the LUX Prize in 2014 with Girlhood [+see also:
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interview: Céline Sciamma
interview: Céline Sciamma
film profile]. This will be the second year in a row that a woman heads the GdA jury, after the duo composed of Mina Mileva and Vesela Kazakova in 2021.

During their stay at the Lido, from 31 August to 10 September, the 27 Times Cinema participants will report on the films and events they attend through articles and interviews that will be published on Cineuropa's 27 Times Cinema blog. After the festival, these young jurors will take on the role of ambassadors for the LUX Audience Award, contributing as influencers and promoting the nominated titles (to be unveiled during the European Film Awards) both on social media and in their respective cinemas back home (all part of the Europa Cinemas network).

The participants are:

Esther Beckstein (Stadkino, Vienna, Austria) (read more)
Flavio Sillitti (Cinéma Palace, Brussels, Belgium) (read more)
Georgi Georgiev (Dom na Kinoto, Sofia, Bulgaria) (read more)
Iva Martinović (Urania, Osijek, Croatia) (read more)
Antriani Ioannou (Rialto Theatre, Limassol, Cyprus) (read more)
Lukas Hypius (Bio Central, Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic) (read more)
Linnea Heydenreich (Grand Teatret, Copenhagen, Denmark) (read more)
Tristan Czar Aasmäe (Kino Artis, Tallinn, Estonia) (read more)
Eva Coatanéa (Cinema Orion, Helsinki, Finland) (read more)
Lise Clavier (Katorza, Nantes, France) (read more)
David Bakum (Abaton, Hamburg, Germany) (read more)
Sofia Agalioti (Mikrokosmos, Athens, Greece) (read more)
Joel Kormos (Tisza Mozi, Szolnok, Hungary) (read more)
Emily Thomas (Irish Film Institute, Dublin, Ireland) (read more)
Daniyal Mirr Ahmed (Cinema Lumière, Bologna, Italy) (read more)
Juta Jākobsone (Kino Bize, Riga, Latvia) (read  more)
Saulė Savanevičiūtė (Kino Pasaka, Vilnius, Lithuania) (read more)
Damir Mehic (Utopia, Luxembourg, Luxembourg) (read more)
Veronika Mercieca (Eden Cinemas, St. Julian's, Malta) (read more)
Menno Habets (Chassé, Breda, Netherlands) (read more)
Antoni Konieczny (Gdynia Film Centre, Gdynia, Poland) (read more)
Rita Duque (Trindade, Porto, Portugal) (read more)
Adrian Enescu (Cinema Muzeul Taranului, Bucharest, Romania) (read more)
Kristina Horinkova (ArtKino Metro, Trencin, Slovakia) (read more)
Ana Marija Hauko (Kinodvor, Ljubljana, Slovenia) (read more)
Manuel Palenzuela (Cines Renoir, Madrid, Spain) (read more)
Axel Fjellman (Zita, Stockholm, Sweden) (read more)