European Film Festival Network Young Programmers for Young Audiences! (Young4Film)

The European Film Festival Network Young Programmers for Young Audiences! or Young4Film has been since 2023 dedicated to its core mission: actively involving young programmers in shaping the programmes of six established international film festivals: Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International Film Festival, Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival, Vilnius Short Film Festival, Piccolo Grande Cinema, Cinehill Film Festival and Valladolid International Film Week – Seminci.

Our aim is to develop our audiences and promote European films amongst the target groups of primary, secondary and university students. We entrust young programmers with the responsibility of becoming part of the festival teams, while their film programmes and promotional material are shared with young and adult audiences at all the festivals within the network. Our collaborative approach to engaging young programmers is based on the original Moving Cinema methodology, which has been developed since 2014 by the team of A Bao A Qu in collaboration with several international partners.

In May 2025, the first international group of Young Programmers using the Moving Cinema methodology was formed. Each of the six film festivals in the Young4Film network invited two experienced Young Programmers to join the international group. The group of 12 met online to select a double-bill in which a film classic would be placed in dialogue with a contemporary film. Their selected program premiered in October at the Seminci festival and was presented live by the Young Programmers.

Building on this groundwork, the next generation of International Young Programmers embarked on their journey in March 2026 and curated a programme focused on the theme of sustainability. Their final selection will be presented at the Cinehill Film Festival in Croatia in July 2027.

Following the development of the Sustainability and Social Awareness Charter for Young Film Audiences in 2023 and 2024, the network has been working intensively on the strategies related to sustainability and environmental awareness, as well as on gender balance, inclusion, diversity, and representativeness. As a next step, the partners identified the need to integrate these principles directly into the Moving Cinema methodology, particularly in the work with Young Programmers. In 2025, the specialized subcontractor Kijufi, in collaboration with subcontractors A Bao A Qu and Meno Avilys, has developed an Action Plan for including Sustainability and Social Awareness into the Moving Cinema Young Programmers methodology.

[Source: Otok Institute]

Otok Institute for cultural and social development

(Leader) Ljubljana

Funded projects

European Film Festival Network Young Programmers for Young Audiences! (Young4Film)

FILMDISTRIBUTION2025

European Films in Slovenia 2025-2027 Fivia d.o.o.

ACQUISITIONS AND DISTRIBUTION OF EUROPEAN FILMS 2026-2027

European Films in Slovenia 2024-2026 - Fivia

2023 Film Distribution - Generation stage Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Albania - Reinvestment into distribution and Acquisition of non-national European titles 2024-2026

European films in Slovenia 2023/2024

EUROPEAN FILM 2023-2024

DEMIURG - distribution of European films in Slovenia, years 2024 and 2025

2022 Film Distribution - Generation stage Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania - Reinvestment into distribution and Acquisition of non-national European titles 2023-2025

2020, 2021 - GENERATION SLOVENIA - REINVESTMENT INTO DISTRIBUTION AND ACQUISITION OF NON-NATIONAL EUROPEAN TITLES 2022-2024

European Films in Slovenia 2022/2023

DEMIURG - distribution of European films in Slovenia, years 2023 and 2024

2020 Generation and Reinvestment – Demiurg

2020 Generation and Reinvestment – Fivia

2020 Generation and Reinvestment – Blitz

Films on the Move 2025

Films on the Move 2024

Films on the Move 2023

Films on the Move 2022

Films on the Move 2021

Kino Otok Isola Cinema 2016

Distribution – Automatic support scheme 2014 - Demiurg

Distribution – Automatic support scheme 2014 - Blitz

Distribution – Automatic support scheme - Fivia/Cenex

Distribution – Automatic support scheme - Demiurg

Distribution – Automatic support scheme Blitz

12. Animateka International Animated Film Festival

United States od Love

Stories From The Chestnut Woods

The Last Ice Hunters

Vrnitev v Itako/Retour a Ithaque

Victoria

Long Way North

Toni Erdmann

The Girl King

Suburra

Starec in štorklja

Savlov sin/Saul Fia

Resonance Cinema. Cultural Hub for Curious Minds

Classroom Rascals

Phoenix

Ovna/Hrutar

Redemption (now Family Therapy)

Odprto morje/Fuocoammare

Nova prijateljica/Une Nouvelle Amie

Neznanka/La Fille Inconnue

A Bigger Splash

Mustang

Mon Roi

Moja mama/Mia Madre

Misija Arktika/Operasjon Arktis

Matura/Bacalaureat (aka Fotografii de Familie)

Marijina zgodba/Marie Heurtin

Marguerite

Mama/Ma ma

Maenas Down

Ma Loute/Mirni zaliv

Ljubezen na prvi pretep/Les combattants

The Innocents

Like Crazy

The Business of Revenge

A War

The Commune

Captain Sabertooth and the Treasure of Lama Rama

I, Daniel Blake

Golob je sedel na veji in razmišljal o življenju/En Duva Satt Pa En Gren Och Funderade Pa Tillvaron

Louder than Bombs

Francofonia

Conspiracy of Faith

The absent one

Phantom Boy

Sweet Dreams

European Framework for Film Education

Eden

Dobrodušni velikan/Fúsi

Čisto nova zaveza/Le Tout Nouveau Testament

Cena slave/La Rancon de la Gloire

Block 5