During the Bologna session 2007, Ian Christie suggested that exhibitors, which were attending the workshops, draw up their own list of films for young audiences.

This Top 10 system may be an excellent means of making films known to audiences - young and not so young - and to professionals.

Then we could ask which films should feature in a Top 10 for Young Audiences: Classic films? Recent, successful films? Films produced by 'small' countries as well as by bigger ones?

During the Bologna Seminar 2009, each attending exhibitor proposed a Top 10 of the most important European films for Young Audiences. Here is the resulting list :

1. The 400 blows / Les 400 Coups (FR, François Truffaut, 1959)  - 5 votes
2. Ex-aequo - 4 votes chacun :
      La Haine (FR, Mathieu Kassovitz, 1995)
      Bicycle Thieves / Ladri di Biciclette (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)
3. Breathless / A bout de souffle (FR, Jean-Luc Godard, 1960) – 3 votes
4. Ex-aequo - 2 votes chacun (classés par code pays):
      The Class / Entre les murs (FR, Laurent Cantet, 2008)
      Amélie / Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain (FR, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001)
      Kes (GB, Ken Loach, 1969)
      This Is England (GB, Shane Meadows, 2006)
      4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days / 4 luni, 3 saptamâni si 2 zile (RO, Cristian Mungiu, 2007)
      The Seventh Seal / Det sjunde inseglet (SE, Ingmar Bergman, 1957)


You can post your own Top 10 European films for young audiences ! It will be online as soon as we receive it.
Post your Top 10 ! (info@europa-cinemas.org)


Exhibitor's Top 10 available :
Martin Kaufmann's Top 10 (Filmclub, Bolzano, Italy)
Maddie Probst's Top 10 (Watershed, Bristol, United Kingdom)
Frédéric Henry' Top 10 (Les Cinémas du Palais, Créteil, France)
Rainer Gottwald's Top 10 (Kino Utopia, Wasserburg, Germany)
Noreen Collins'Top 10 (Cinemobile, Galway, Ireland)