14/03/2023 - Once again this year, Europa Cinemas, the LUX Audience Award and the Giornate degli Autori are inviting 27 young filmgoers to participate in their initiative during the Venice Film Festival

The 27 Times Cinema initiative, launched jointly by the European Parliament’s LUX Audience Award, Venice's Giornate degli Autori and Europa Cinemas, is looking forward to welcoming its 2023 participants.

27 young film lovers chosen from among the young audience (one participant per member state of the European Union) of the Europa Cinemas network members, will attend the 80th Venice Film Festival (taking place on the Lido from 30 August-9 September) and will constitute the Giornate degli Autori Jury awarding a prize of €20,000 to the best film in this year’s selection. During Venice, the 27 jurors will also take part in workshops with audiovisual industry professionals and will share their Venice experience online on Cineuropa and Europa Cinemas’ social networks. Moreover, after the festival, they will become LUX Audience Award ambassadors and will be actively involved in promoting and organising the LUX Audience Award.

In order to participate, you can get in touch before the end of March with your country's cinemas taking part in the call for applications this year, which are:

Austria
StadtKino im Künstlerhaus (Vienna)

Belgium
Sphinx (Ghent)
Galeries (Brussels)
Buda Kunstencentrum (Kortrijk)

Bulgaria
Dom na Kinoto (Sofia)
G8 (Sofia)

Croatia
Urania (Osijek)
Art-Kino (Rijeka)

Cyprus
Rialto Theatre (Limassol)

Czech Republic
Scala (Brno)
Kino Aero, Svetozor, Bio Oko (Prague)

Denmark
Nikolai Biograf (Kolding)
Grand Teatret (Copenhagen)

Estonia
Kino Artis (Tallinn)
Elektriteater (Tartu)

Finland
Kino Iiris (Lahti)
Cinema Orion (Helsinki)

France
Le Méliès (Montreuil)
Cinéma ABC  (Toulouse)

Germany
Abaton (Hambourg)
Harmonie, Cinéma & Casino (Frankfurt - Aschaffenburg)
Atlantis (Mannheim)

Greece
Mikrokosmos (Athens)

Hungary
Cirko Film (Budapest)
Tisza Mozi  (Szolnok)

Ireland
Irish Film Institute (Dublin)
Pálás (Galway)

Italy
Cinema Beltrade (Milan)
Cinema Lumière (Bologna)

Latvia
Splendid Palace (Riga)
Kino Bize (Riga)

Lithuania
Skalvija (Vilnius)
Kauno kino centras Romuva (Kaunas)

Luxembourg
Utopia (Luxembourg)

Malta
Eden Cinemas (Saint Julians)
Spazju Kreattiv (Valletta)

Netherlands
Rialto (Amsterdam)
KINO (Rotterdam)

Poland
Gdynia Film Centre (Gdynia)
Kino Pod Baranami (Krakow)
New Horizons (Wroclaw)
Kino Elektronik (Warsaw)

Portugal
Casa do Cinema (Coimbra)
Trindade (Porto)

Romania
Cinema Muzeul Taranului (Bucharest)
Elvire Popesco (Bucharest)
Cinema Victoria (Cluj)

Slovakia
Kino Film Europe (Bratislava)
Kino Lumiere (Bratislava)
Kino Usmev (Kosice)

Slovenia
Mestni Kino Domzale (Domzale)
Kinodvor (Ljubljana)
Mestni kino Ptuj (Ptuj)

Spain
Golem (Madrid)
Renoir Plaza España (Madrid)
Cineciutat (Palme de Mallorca)
Numax (Santiago de Compostela)
Cines Lys (Valencia)

Sweden
Zita (Stockholm)