It is with great pleasure that we announce that Rauf has been nominated for the 5th EFA Young Audience Award!

Rauf is a touching coming-of-age film about courage and hope, search for peace and optimism about the future. Eleven-year-old Rauf is in love for the very first time, with Zana – the twenty-year-old daughter of his master carpenter. First loves are never simple, especially is a small environment where daily life is bursting with threats of impending war. In order to prove Zana the depth of his feelings, Rauf embarks on a search for a special colourwhich cannot be found in their village, the colour which would symbolise his love: not an easy task in a snow-clad isolated corner of Antalya.

The nominations were chosen by an international committee consisting of Melinda Boros(Clorofilm/Romania), Marjo Kovanen (Koulukino/Finland), Beata Marciniak (New Horizons Association/Poland), Marta Nieto Postigo (Drac Màgic/Spain) and Jakub Viktorin(Visegrad Film Forum/Slovakia).

On Young Audience Film Day on 8 May, the three nominated films will be screened to audiences of 12 – 14 year-olds in the following 30 countries across Europe, and it is the young audience that will act as a jury and vote for the winner right after the screenings. In a truly European vote, jury speakers will then transmit the national results live via video conference to Erfurt (Germany) where the winner will be announced in an award ceremony streamed live on this website.