European Film Festival Networks

European Network for Film Discourse (The END) is a young and EU-funded alliance, closely linked to the successful online magazine Talking Shorts. The main aim of The END is to promote film criticism and audience participation. The network consists of Filmfest Dresden (Germany), Vienna Shorts (Austria), Lago Film Fest (Italy), Kortfilmfestival Leuven (Belgium), FeKK Ljubljana Short Film Festival (Slovenia) and Vilnius Short Film Festival (Lithuania). Its main purpose is to promote critical film discourse by and for a younger generation and to familiarise new audiences with a flourishing European film landscape, including cooperative workshops, mentoring programmes and various community activities.

European Film Festival Network “Young Programmers for Young Audiences! (Young4Film)” aims to overturn a common film festival practice, where young audience programme curation is done exclusively by grownups. In contrast, the network’s main mission is to actively include young people in the creation of five established international film festivals as Young Programmers, who will co-curate festivals’ onsite and online programmes. The network is coordinated by Kino Otok – Isola Cinema International film festival (Slovenia), its members are International Documentary film festival Beldocs (Serbia, since 2008), Vilnius Short film festival (Lithuania), Piccolo Grande Cinema (Italy) and Motovun film festival (Croatia).