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The Way
Dir.: Emilio Estevez
Tom is an American doctor who comes to France to collect the remains of his adult son killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son's desire to finish the journey.
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Educational Grades: ,,,,,,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,Higher Education,
Subjects: English language / Religion / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) /
Topics: education in human values / means of transportation and /or traffic safety education / human relations, psychology, sociology / alcoholisme, drugaddictions / family, family relationships / death and grief / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
The Way Back
Dir.: Peter Weir
In 1939, the Polish military Janusz is accused of espionage by the Soviet Union. His wife is tortured and Janusz is sentenced to twenty years imprisoned in a Siberian gulag. When Janusz is assigned to work in the mines, he feels that the only chance to survive is escaping from the camp.
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Educational Grades: ,,,,,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,,
Subjects: English language / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Literature / History /
Topics: culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / means of transportation and /or traffic safety education / biographies, autobiographies / human relations, psychology, sociology / human rights / film adaptation of literary or graphic work / judicial system, prisons, death penalty / politics, political systems /
The White Ribbon
Dir.: Michael Haneke
From July, 1913 to the outbreak of World War I, a series of incidents take place in a German village. Didn't those events contain the germs of the tragedies that followed? Weren't the barbaric acts of the children, deep down, the natural consequences of what they had been taught?
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Educational Grades: ,,,,,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,Higher Education,
Subjects: Religion / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Audiovisual culture. Cinema. Television. Photography / History /
Topics: education in human values / culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / children, children’s rights / adolescence, youth / human relations, psychology, sociology / educational world, coeducation, teacher-student relationships /
The Woman in Black
Dir.: James Watkins
Based on a novel by Susan Hill. In London, lawyer Arthur Kipps is assigned to travel to the remote village of Cryphin Gifford. There he learns that a woman who lost her son drowned in the marsh and she seeks revenge, is taking the children of the scared locals.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: English version with subtitles in Spanish
Educational Grades: ,,,,,,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,Higher Education,
Subjects: Catalan language and literature / English language / Literature /
Topics: human relations, psychology, sociology / death and grief / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
Dir.: Cao Hamburger
In 1970, near the World Cup, Daniel and his wife Miriam leaves Belo Horizonte in a hurry with their twelve years old son Mauro. While traveling to São Paulo, the couple explains Mauro that they will travel on vacation and will leave Mauro with his grandfather Mótel.
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Educational Grades: ,,,Upper Primary school,Secondary school, 12 to 14,,,,,,
Subjects: Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Physical education (PE) / Citizenship (Primary School) / Religion / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: education in human values / children, children’s rights / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human geography / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships / politics, political systems /
The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet
Dir.: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
T.S. Spivet lives on a ranch in Montana. One day, he receives an unexpected call from the Smithsonian museum telling him that he is the winner of the very prestigious Baird prize for his discovery of the perpetual motion machine.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: English version with subtitles in Catalan
Educational Grades: ,,,Upper Primary school,Secondary school, 12 to 14,,,,,,
Subjects: Catalan language and literature / English language / Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Citizenship (Primary School) / Form class (Pastoral care) / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Design and Technology / Literature / Contemporary world / Basque language /
Topics: education in human values / children, children’s rights / means of transportation and /or traffic safety education / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships / educational world, coeducation, teacher-student relationships / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
Thérčse
Dir.: Alain Cavalier
Thérèse Martin enters the convent of Lisieux at the end of the XIXth century. She died of tuberculosis at 24 and left a notebook which was translated into many languages. His tomb became a place of pilgrimage and she was canonized in 1927.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
Educational Grades: ,,,,,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,,,Higher Education,
Subjects: Religion / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / French / History /
Topics: education in human values / women (and/or violence against women) / adolescence, youth / biographies, autobiographies / human relations, psychology, sociology / death and grief /
This Boy's Life
Dir.: Michael Caton-Jones
It is based on a true story by Tobias Wolff. In 1957, a son and his mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend and end up in Seattle, where the mother marries a polite garage mechanic. They soon find out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
Educational Grades: ,,,,,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,Higher Education,
Subjects: English language / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world /
Topics: education in human values / women (and/or violence against women) / adolescence, youth / biographies, autobiographies / alcoholisme, drugaddictions / family, family relationships / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
This Crazy Heart
Dir.: Marc Rothemund
Funny, tender and exciting story. The biographical novel by the Germans Daniel Meyer and Lars Armend, inspires this film.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: German version subtitled in Spanish
Educational Grades: ,,,,Secondary school, 12 to 14,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,Higher Education,
Subjects: Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world / German Language /
Topics: education in human values / adolescence, youth / medicine, health / biographies, autobiographies / human relations, psychology, sociology / physical and cognitive disabilities or disorders / family, family relationships / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
Three 60
Dir.: Alex Ezkurdia
William is a young university student, passionate about surfing, who begins a dangerous investigation into a network of trafficking in human organs which will have unexpected consequences.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
Educational Grades: ,,,,,,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,Higher Education,
Subjects: Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world /
Topics: medicine, health / human relations, psychology, sociology /
To Be and to Have
Dir.: Nicolas Philibert.
We are in a village school in Auvergne, France, where Georges Lopez teaches 13 children, ages ranging from about 4 to 12. As they learn sums and adjectives, with Lopez's help, they also learn to live side by side.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
Educational Grades: ,,,,Secondary school, 12 to 14,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,Higher Education,
Subjects: Form class (Pastoral care) / French /
Topics: children, children’s rights / educational world, coeducation, teacher-student relationships /
To Kill a King
Dir.: Mike Barker
Between 1642 and 1651 England lived a civil war. General Oliver Cromwell and the aristocrat Lord Fairfax, friends and leaders of the parliamentary faction, became estranged from each other as a result of the death penalty against the king passed by the parliament.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
Educational Grades: ,,,,,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,Higher Education,
Subjects: English language / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Philosophy and History of Philosophy / History /
Topics: culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / biographies, autobiographies / human relations, psychology, sociology / judicial system, prisons, death penalty / politics, political systems /
