On Sunday 5th May 2019, Film Grain Foundation will be hosting the European Film Academy Young Audience Award 2019 in collaboration with Spazju Kreattiv. Teenagers aged 12-15 years from Malta are invited to join thousands of kids from around Europe to watch three European films simultaneously. The screenings offer a unique opportunity to discover great European films that reflect the realities of young people all over Europe. Each film will be discussed with film educators and film professionals and the attendees will get in touch with their fellow jury members in other countries via chatrooms setup for the event and will then vote for their favourite film. The European Film Academy’s Young Audience Award unites 12-14-year-olds in 55 cities in 34 countries from Iceland to Malta, from Portugal to Croatia. Following are the films selected for this year’s edition of The European Film Academy’s Young Audience Award:

OLD BOYS

Director: Toby MacDonald

Cert: 12A
Duration: 96 minutes
Language: English

In this school-set re-working of Cyrano de Bergerac, an awkward but imaginative pupil helps the handsome but spectacularly dim school-hero pursue the fiery daughter of a visiting French teacher.

Fight girl

Director: Johan Timmers

Cert: 12A
Duration: 84 minutes
Language: Dutch with English subtitles 

When her parents end up in an acrimonious divorce, the headstrong, highly volatile Bo (12) moves to an Amsterdam suburb with her mother and brother. Once there, her neighbour, Joy, introduces her to the kickboxing club. She demonstrates natural talent and is very soon taking part in the Dutch championships, but her parents divorce is distracting Bo and threatens to ruin the contest. Bo has to learn restraint and accept that she can’t control everything.

LOS BANDO

Director: Christian LO

Cert: 12A
Duration: 94 minutes
Language: Norwegian with English subtitles

Los Bando is a feel-good road movie about a young band who embark on a crazy journey across Norway to attend the National Championships of Rock in a race against time, the police and their parents.

Tickets €10 including lunch. Purchase your ticket here. All films are classified 12A.