Young4Film

Education

Spaces of encounter for film creation, learning and collective reflection.

EDUCATION

Young4Film

A European network of festivals backed by the Creative Europe MEDIA programme that has been working since 2023 to develop activities for young audiences to turn them into critical spectators and active programmers.

SEMINCI’s joining this network in 2025 consolidates and internationalises its educational programme, positioning the festival as an innovative agent in film education inside and outside the classroom.

The festivals Kino Otok-Isola Cinema IFF (Slovenia), International Documentary FF Beldocs (Serbia), Vilnius Short FF (Lithuania), Piccolo Grande Cinema (Italy) and Cinehill FF (Croatia) are part of this network.

The methodology developed by A Bao A Qu, a cultural association whose work has been recognised with awards such as the 2015 City of Barcelona Award in Visual Arts, the Pepón Coromina Award from the Catalan Film Academy (2021), the Catalan Association of Art Critics (ACCA) Award in Education 2020, and the Grant for EU Media Literacy Programs from the Evens Foundation (2013), among others. This programme, which this year has incorporated sustainability and social awareness as cross-cutting criteria, has revolutionised the way young audiences discover, appreciate and enjoy European cinema.

This effort to develop active young audiences is accompanied by a concern for issues such as sustainability, environmental awareness, equal gender representation, inclusion, diversity, and representation.

Young Programmers Moving Cinema

An initiative that offers a group of young people, aged 16 to 21, to select and present to the public, with the assistance of the filmmakers, one or more of the films in the programme, creating a generational bridge between creators and audiences.

This programme, which will be 10 years old in 2025, makes the selected titles, accompanied by digital educational materials, available to other film curators, film educators, and teachers.

Young International Programmers

The festivals that are part of the 2025 network have joined forces to launch a pioneering initiative, the creation of an international group made up of 12 young film programmers between the ages of 18 and 25. This collaboration marks the start of an ambitious project: the establishment of a film festival organised by and for young audiences.

The young programmers participate in online meetings and will hold their first face-to-face meeting in Valladolid. During the 70th edition of the SEMINCI, they will present to 700 students a double session proposing a dialogue between a heritage film and a contemporary film.

The activities will be completed with the online distribution of a selection of feature and short films made by these young programmers.

Inside Cinema sessions

The purpose of Inside Cinema is to share the dream, the adventure, the quest of creating a film. To get to know the films and how cinema is made. To celebrate the work. To love it.

SEMINCI organises two annual encounter sessions with filmmakers to explore filmmaking through the numerous materials and documents with which a film is imagined, rehearsed, researched, painted, organised and composed: From the first sketches and ideas to the editing, including writing, documentation, locations, visual references, working with the actors, organising the shooting, sound composition…

The documents of the working process of directors from different periods and styles are available for consultation on the online platform Inside Cinema, aimed at those who want to learn more about a film they love, at those who question the processes of filmmaking, and at those who are learning to make films.