POLYGLOT: on the way to Turku is organized by NISI MASA – the European network of young cinema with the support of the Turku 2011 European Cultural Capital and the European Cultural Foundation.

Due technical problems the online voting has been cancelled

Winners by jury decision

Do you speak video? Visit www.polyglot-turku.eu to discover the entries! NISI MASA received 87 valid submissions from 28 different European countries: Video Portraits (documentary) on My multilingualism and Video Poems (fiction) on The language I dream in. Due technical problems the online voting was cancelled and Polyglot jury will select all 18 winners.

Confirmed for the jury are

  • Vivian Paulissen (manager of the European Cultural Foundation’s Youth & Media Programme - The Netherlands)
  • Barnabás Tóth (filmmaker and actor - Hungary)
  • Radka Weiserová (head of production, Fresh Film Fest - Czech Republic) and
  • Massimiliano Spotti (researcher in linguistic ethnography, University of Jyväskylä - Finland)
  • Ulla Bergstrom (animation film director & audiovisual arts production coordinator, Turku 2011 Foundation - Finland)

The selected young filmmakers aged 18-35 will participate in the “Cine-Boat” documentary filmmaking workshop travelling across the archipelago of Turku (Finland) in June 2011, to celebrate its status as European Capital of Culture.