Non-Competitive
- Belmont World Film: Family Film Festival, Cambridge, Belmont, and Arlington
- Buster - Copenhagen International Film Festival for Children and Youth, Copenhagen
- Discovery – Scotland's International Film Festival for Young Audiences, Dundee
- DOK Leipzig – International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig
- Dresdner Kinderfilmfest Kinolino, Dresden
- Edinburgh International Film Festival, Edinburgh
- Espoo Ciné International Film Festival, Espoo
- Festival Internacional du Premier Film, Annonay
- Festival International du Film de La Rochelle, La Rochelle
- Filmfest Hamburg, Children's and Youth Film Festival "Michel", Hamburg
- FilmFestival Cottbus (Festival des Osteuropäischen Films) 2020 Online, Cottbus
- Galway Film Fleadh / Junior Film Fleadh, Galway
- Glasgow Youth Film Festival, Glasgow
- IFI Family Festival, Dublin
- International Film Festival Kinotrip – By the Youth, for the Youth, Ljubljana
- International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg, Mannheim & Heidelberg
- Kasseler Kinder- & Jugendfilmfest, Kassel
- KinderKinoFest Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf
- Locarno Film Festival: Locarno Kids, Locarno
- Nelson Mandela Children’s Film Festival, Johannesburg
- Riga International Film Festival, Riga
- Sarajevo Film Festival, Sarajewo
- SehPferdchen - Kinderfilmfest Hannover, Hannover & Burgdorf & Wunstorf
- Sottodiciotto Filmfestival (Under 18), Torino
- Stockholm International Film Festival Junior, Stockholm
- The Norwegian International Filmfestival / "Cinemagi", Haugesund
- Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Thessaloniki
- TIFF Junior – Tromsø Children's Film Festival, Tromsø
- Transilvania International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Sibiu, Mures
- Universal Kids Film Festival, Tuzla / Istanbul
- Zagreb Film Festival, Zagreb
- Zoomz – Festival für Kinder- und Jugendfilm, Luzern
Youngabout - International Film Festival for Young People
Bologna, Italy
27/11/2023 - 07/12/2023 (dd/mm/yyyy)
Rhythm: annual, next Festival afterwards (probably): Late 2024
Competitive Original Children's Film Festival
Director/s: Mastrolonardo, Angela; Durano, Olga
Prizes: Young Jury prize
Programs: Features, Shorts, Animations, Documentaries
Number of films (app.): 30
Age of audience: 13 to 99
Number of spectators (app.): 10000
Festival's guests: Directors, Actors, Others
Festival's recognition: national
Media coverage: national
Special Events: Focus on US Teen Drama . Tribute to Alberto Ancilotto, one of the first italian documentary film maker.
Notes/description: A Festival dedicated to young people (from 13 to 18 years old) for the discovery of the magic of film seen on the wide screen, and the pleasure of exchanging views, the passion for new languages, new initiatives in an open and welcoming permanent laboratory of ideas. School classes from all over Italy come to the screenings (film critic, meetings, discussions.
"It is our intention to give a voice to young creativity; there will be spaces where it will be possible to show one’s own work and at the same time experiment with new languages and new techniques by attending laboratories and workshops offered by Italian and foreign artists!"
This festival is a member of
Contact:
Associazione "Gli anni in tasca, il Cinema e i Ragazzi"
Via Torleone, 47
40125 Bologna, Italy
Italy
Phone: ++39-051-220261
Fax: ++39-051-262911
Internet: www.youngabout.com