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Famous Five
Dir.: Mike Marzuk
This film is an adaptation of the first book of the series The Five by Enid Blyton. It tells how the five friends get to know each other for the first time during a summer vacation and how they are drawn into a dangerous international intrigue to seize a new energy source.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Catalan Dubbed Version
Educational Grades: ,,Middle school,Upper Primary school,Secondary school, 12 to 14,,,,,,
Subjects: Catalan language and literature / Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Citizenship (Primary School) / Natural Science / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Literature /
Topics: education in human values / children, children’s rights / animal world and pets / family, family relationships / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
Farewell
Dir.: Christian Carion
In 1981, Sergei Gregoriev, a Soviet colonel, wants to force his nation to reform, so he leaks secret information to the West.
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: French / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / human relations, psychology, sociology / film adaptation of literary or graphic work / politics, political systems /
Finding Neverland
Dir.: Marc Forster
London 1903. After one of his plays fails, J.M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, meets four boys in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a new play.
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,,
Subjects: English language / Literature / History /
Topics: children, children’s rights / biographies, autobiographies / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships /
Frankenweenie
Dir.: Tim Burton
Victor Frankenstien is a bright student without any friend but his dog Sparky. When the dog is hit by a car, Victor successfully resuscitates Sparky using lightning.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: English version with subtitles in Spanish
Educational Grades: ,,Middle school,Upper Primary school,Secondary school, 12 to 14,,,,,,
Subjects: English language / Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Natural Science / Design and Technology / Audiovisual culture. Cinema. Television. Photography /
Topics: animal world and pets / family, family relationships / educational world, coeducation, teacher-student relationships / death and grief / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
Franklin and the Turtle Lake Treasure
Dir.: Dominique Monféry
Franklin shares many good times with his grandmother, but when she takes ill, he's determined to help her. He hears the story from his Aunt Lucy of a talisman that may help to cure the illness. The talisman is found in a box that his grandmother had hidden and buried in Turtle Lake.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
Educational Grades: Infant school,Primary school,,,,,,,,,
Subjects: Catalan language and literature / Spanish language and literature / Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Art and Design / Basque language /
Topics: children, children’s rights / animal world and pets / ancient civilizations, archaeology, mythology / family, family relationships / elderly, retirement / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
Friends Forever
Dir.: Tony Loeser, Jesper Mřller
The animals in Mullewapp lead a very pleasant life at the countryside, until they receive an unexpected visitor: Johnny Mauser, a mouse that becomes the most popular inhabitant of the farm. He acts like the hero of incredible stories he tells the other animals.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Catalan dubbed version
Educational Grades: Infant school,Primary school,,,,,,,,,
Subjects: Catalan language and literature / Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Citizenship (Primary School) / Music and History of the Music / Performing arts, Music and Dance /
Topics: education in human values / animal world and pets / family, family relationships /
Frozen River
Dir.: Courtney Hunt
Two women - one white, one Mohawk, both single mothers faced with desperate circumstances - are drawn into the world of border smuggling, carrying emigrants across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River.
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: English language / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / women (and/or violence against women) / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships / human rights /
Games of Love and Chance
Dir.: Abdellatif Kechiche
Abdelkrim, nicknamed Krimo, is a fifteen year old student in a secondary school near Paris. It's springtime and his class is preparing a school play. Krimo falls under the spell of his classmate Lydia, a chatty, lively and mischievous girl.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
Educational Grades: ,,,,,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,Further education,,,
Subjects: French /
Topics: adolescence, youth / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human relations, psychology, sociology / educational world, coeducation, teacher-student relationships /
GENESIS
Dir.: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
After six years of development, here we have the second film by the creators of Microcosmos. Mixing humor and seriousness, innocence and wisdom, it talks about time, matter, birth, love and death. It is a movie where animals are the main characters.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
Educational Grades: ,,,Upper Primary school,Secondary school, 12 to 14,,,,,,
Subjects: Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Natural Science / French / Biology and Geology / Earth Sciences /
Topics: ecology, environment, sustainability / animal world and pets /
Girl With A Pearl Earring
Dir.: Peter Webber
The film is an adaptation from a novel written by author Tracy Chevalier. It tells a story about the events surrounding the creation of the painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by 17th century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.
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 / Literature / Art History / History /
Topics: women (and/or violence against women) / architecture and urban planning, painting, sculpture / biographies, autobiographies / human relations, psychology, sociology / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
Glup, Household Refuse Goes Out in Search of Adventure
Dir.: Aitor Arregi, Ińigo Berasategi
Objects that society considers useless live poorly in a dump that is controlled by a wicked incinerator. Alice and Mr. Glup beat the incinerator and make all the condemned objects go to the recycling plant.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
Educational Grades: Infant school,Primary school,,,,,,,,,
Subjects: Catalan language and literature / Spanish language and literature / Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Citizenship (Primary School) / Basque language /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / ecology, environment, sustainability /
Good Bye, Lenin!
Dir.: Wolfgang Becker
East Germany 1989. A boy protests against the communist regime. His mother watches the police arresting him, suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma. Some months later, the German Democratic Republic does not exist anymore and the mother awakes.
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,,
Subjects: Social Science, Geography and History / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships / human rights / politics, political systems /
