Young & Short is a distribution film series that characterizes its generation. It is a collection of short films depicting themes that are important to young people and that they enjoy.

Each year, young people in the 12-14 and 15-19 age categories select films not just for their peers. They will represent their generation with five short films selected from the best that European short cinema for young people has to offer. We then distribute the Young & Short series to Czech cinemas and schools, offering them not only a quality film experience, but also a specially created programme with lecturers' introductions, discussions, interesting guests or workshops.

Contemporary cinema for young people is quite difficult to reach its target audience - individual films are usually only sporadically presented at film festivals and often do not even make it into mainstream cinema distribution, especially in the Czech environment, for various reasons.

With its format, the Young & Short project tries to disrupt this tendency. It will present the best festival shorts to young viewers in a weekend programme and, after expertly guided discussions, let them decide which films they want to include in Czech distribution.

Young & Short confronts the traditional concept of cinemas and gives young people the opportunity to become an active part of the Czech film environment. The series is put together by young jurors who have been selected on the basis of their motivation, their relationship to film and their proven ability to think about and reflect on film in a complex way. This results in a unique film strand that responds to a contemporary world dominated by audiovisual content, the quality and selection of which is otherwise generally not influenced by young people.

The aim of the project is to bring to young audiences short films selected from the most prestigious European film festivals - such as Cannes, the Venice International Film Festival, Sundance, Berlinale or the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival. We complement the top European short cinema with prominent Czech film representatives. All this across genres, cultures and film approaches.

Thanks to this, we are able to develop critical and aesthetic thinking in young people in an unconventional and entertaining way. At the same time, we give them the opportunity to inspire each other with their opinions and attitudes on a peer level.