EU Youth Cinema comes to Serbia, brings the latest eco documentaries

The EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal, an important educational program with a free streaming platform is coming to Serbia this autumn bringing cutting-edge European films focused on the environment, water and sustainability. 

The project particularly aims at addressing environmental challenges for young people, promoting green habits, and encouraging a healthier, more sustainable lifestyle, It features a brand-new streaming platform with an expanded selection of films available to a global audience without registration across 12 partner countries in Europe 

Following two successful years of educating and raising awareness about environmental and sustainability issues among young people in Austria, Croatia, North Macedonia, Romania, and Slovenia, the EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal is expanded to do so in new partner countries: Serbia, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Montenegro, Ukraine, and South Tyrol (Italy). 

“An intact ecological and social environment is essential for a fulfilled life and successful economic activity. Sustainability must therefore be in the interests of us all in the face of advancing climate change. Initiatives such as 'EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal' make an important contribution to imparting knowledge and raising awareness of the EU climate strategy. We are happy to support this, especially as sustainability is also an integral part of our business model,” explains Hartwig Löger, CEO of Vienna Insurance Group, one of the project's partners. 

With its multicultural approach and an innovative streaming platform the project significantly contributes to appreciating and understanding the EU's climate strategy and boasts a carefully curated collection of over 50 European films. Teachers and educators from 12 countries can now register their classes or youth groups for access to the film platform, cinema screenings, and didactic materials in their national languages for free. 

New European documentaries are continuously added to the program. Highlighted films include: German-Danish “Into the Ice”, Polish “Until the Last Drop”, (North Macedonian?) “Lake of Apples”, as well as “Time for Utopian Ideas”, “Start up for a Reason”, “Activist” and “La Buena Vida”. Anyone, anywhere, can explore the breathtaking European films and embark on a green journey by visiting www.euyc.green. 

The project's exclusive cinema partner is Cineplexx International. 

“Cineplexx International is represented in eleven of the twelve countries and is contributing to the success of this highly innovative project with its relevant cinema expertise, customized marketing measures and first-class infrastructure. We also see this collaboration as a great opportunity to help establish a green school cinema in 33 European cities currently being screened, from Vienna and Salzburg to Skopje, Tirana, Split and Thessaloniki, as a place where a future-oriented dialogue between generations and an exchange of knowledge, experience and environmentally friendly practices can take place,” says Christof Papousek, CFO and co-partner of Cineplexx International, which is on board as the exclusive cinema partner in 11 countries. 

Cinema events with free entry for all registered school classes at Cineplexx cinemas in Beograd, Niš, Novi Sad and Kragujevac are offered this year in November. 

Registration to cinema events and the green streaming platform is free and possible at any time: www.youth-cinema.eu/rs. 

The second edition of the EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal is organized by LET’S CEE Filmfestival (Austria), EPEKA (Slovenia), Go Green (North Macedonia), Innovation Generation (Ukraine), and Chapter 4 Communications (CEE/SEE). The project is primarily funded by Creative Europe, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation, and Technology, and the Vienna Insurance Group (VIG) with the local brand Wiener Städtische Osiguranje. Additional essential support is provided by the Collecting Society for Audiovisual Media (VAM) and Cineplexx, the exclusive cinema partner. 

The project in Serbia is supported by strong partners/green NGOs: PROTECTA (Niš) and Environment Engineering Group (Inženjeri zaštite životne sredine) from Novi Sad.