YOUTH JURY
YOUTH JURY
The Youth Jury is one of our flagship film education projects and will be held for the twelfth time in 2025. The aim is to actively promote skills in dealing with the medium of film and to make people want to go to the cinema.
The young jurors are already prepared in the weeks before the festival by film educators in the context of a workshop. Together they view films from the Austrian competition, discuss and analyze the films and finally come to a decision. At the festival, they present them in person to an audience and award a prize for the best Austrian film worth 1,500 euros.
For many years now, the Youth Jury has been implemented in cooperation with Jugend am Werk and the prize sponsors: the Chamber of Labour Vienna, ViennaFX, and Blautöne. In 2024, a group of apprentices from the training company Moderne Berufsausbildung will form the Youth Jury.
2024
Youth Jury Award: LOUANNE & THAÏS, Josephine Jeltsch
Jury: Apprentices from the training company Moderne Berufsausbildung at Jugend am Werk Bildungs GmbH (training in gold and silversmithing and carpentry);
Jury members: Rama Al Majzob, Selena Berka, Vanessa Eder, Stella Gartler-Heichinger, Karim Hauzenberger, Elaha Hosseini, Merjem Mutevelic, Jolan Sztojka, Volkan Yaprak, Mahfuza Zaman, Marcel Wimmer, Raphael Lang, Arab Abbas, Baris-Can Sarılır, Rafael Falchetto.
2023
Youth Jury Award: UNTIL I LIE STILL, Yana Eresina
Jury members: Apprentices of the apprentice company Moderne Berufsausbildung of Jugend am Werk Bildungs:Raum GmbH; main jury members: Clarissa Filipp, Flora Galla, Ikbal Fırat, Jolan Sztojka, Karim Hauzenberger, Magomed Magomadov, Nathalie Nowatschka, Selena Berka, Stella Gartler-Heichinger, Vanessa Eder
2022
Youth Jury Award: Breeze, Anna Lehner
Jury: Apprentices of the apprentice company Moderne Berufsausbildung of Jugend am Werk Bildungs:Raum GmbH; main jury members: Yüksel Zeybek, Cendresa Sadik, Roda Hassan, Khava Arsanukaev, Mohammad Iyssat, Yasmin Omran, Sam Eltschkner, Ahmad Albakr, Hanan Mahmud, Habiba Nazari, Şükran Mercan, Mohammad Shahab Mohammadi, Ahmad Alahmad
2021
Youth Jury Award: Life on the Horn, Mo Harawe
Jury members: Apprentices of the apprentice company Moderne Berufsausbildung of Jugend am Werk Bildungs:Raum GmbH; main jury members: Tolga Altinok, Aleksandar Balanovic, Elina Edieva, Merve Karli and Amina Safi
2020
Youth Jury Award: THORAX, Siegfried A. Fruhauf
Jury members: 5th grade students of the Evangelisches Gymnasium Wien; main jury members: Flora Majcen, Franziska Hunger and Isabella Martini-Keider
2019
Youth Jury Award: Guy proposes to his girlfriend on a mountain, Bernhard Wenger
Jury members: Apprentices of the training companies "Werkstätte für technische Berufe" and „Technologiezentrum” as well as the production school STAR
2018
No Youth Jury Award
2017
Youth Jury Award: Bier & Calippo, Paul Ploberger
Jury members: 30 students of the Höhere Graphische Bundes-, Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Die Graphische) and the Parhamergymnasium
2016
Youth Jury Award: Uncanny Valley, Paul Wenninger
Jury members: 30 students of the Höhere Graphische Bundes-, Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt (Die Graphische) and the Parhamergymnasium
2015
Youth Jury Award: Pitter Patter goes my Heart, Christoph Rainer
Jury members: Adolescents from residential groups, mediated by SOS Kinderdorf; main jury members: Dominik Wessely, Nenad Kübast, Rebecca Englisch
2014
Youth Jury Award: Noema, Christiana Perschon
Jury members: Students from the Bundesgymnasium Wien 19 and the HAK Wien I
2013
Youth Jury Award: Wir fliegen, Ulrike Kofler
Jury members: 20 students of the 7th grade of the Bundesgymnasium Wien 19; main jury members: Lisa Brandl, Julia Donner, Ania Gleich, Felix Kehrer and Johannes Vana