Sounds Like Teen Spirit
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Sounds Like Teen Spirit

It's Eurovision... but not as we know it

6.7 / 10 2009 1h 30mNR English
DocumentaryMusic

Storyline

A 2008 documentary and debut feature film of Bafta-Award nominated director Jamie Jay Johnson. It follows the lives of the participants of the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007, specifically the entrants from Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus and Georgia. The film sees them proceed from the national finals that saw them crowned the representatives of their country through to the international song festival itself held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands where they each compete against 16 other acts.

Cast & Crew

Bab Buelens

Bab Buelens

Self

Lead
MB

Marina Baltadzi

Self

YI

Yiorgos Ioannides

Self

MR

Mariam Romelashvili

Self

MC

Mirek Coutigny

Self

LP

Laurens Platteeuw

Self

MR

Matthieu Renier

Self

ES

Eva Storme

Self

What People Are Saying

4.0
A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Jamie Jay Johnson's vision lands with breathtaking precision.
Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
3.0
Every frame feels alive. Sounds Like Teen Spirit is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker