SCHOOL FILM CATALOGUE

The programme was officially inaugurated by Cinema for Peace Ambassador Katja Riemann, winner of the Coppa Volpi as Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival, with a first school visit together with the team of the Cinema for Peace Foundation, presenting the catalogue to the director of the Friedrich-Ebert-Oberschule in Berlin.

We consider it our educational mission to sensitize children and young adults  to relevant topics in the media. Through this, awareness within the younger generation is aroused and a possible social commitment strengthened. Furthermore, the use of media purely as means of entertainment is also countered.  The target group for the school project is the students of various schools in Berlin.  All kinds of schools will be included in this project.

The basis of the school project is the Cinema for Peace school film catalogue. This catalogue is distinguished by its dynamism: the current catalogue is continually updated with new films. For example, the winning films at the Cinema for Peace Gala 2010 are mentioned here: Das Weiße Band, The Picture of the Napalm Girl, Children of War, The Stoning of Soraya M., Women in Shroud, Triage, Tibet in Song, Five Minutes of Heaven, Crude and As We Forgive).

Through the screening of films from the film catalogue of the Cinema for Peace Foundation, students will gain access to various social, political and environmental topics.

The Cinema for Peace film catalogue for schools offers the perfect foundation not only for discussing important social topics during classroom sessions and during leisure but also for fostering creativity in the area of film production.  The school film catalogue that we offer is composed of a variety of films on all kinds of topics and special subjects - from short films and feature films to documentaries, all of which have been carefully selected by the Cinema for Peace Foundation keeping in view the educational goal of the project.  With our films, we hope to  make the audience ponder and reflect, awaken their curiosity and to broaden the horizons of the students as well as their teachers, thus inspiring them to make their own short films. Each film description contains information on the production, a description of content as well as an additional set of questions, which are designed to support classes based on the films.

We consider it our educational mission to sensitize children and young adults to relevant topics and to develop in the younger generation an awareness, not only with respect to the promotion of obligations to their society and surroundings but to take an extra step further and contribute to it. Towards this end, we have developed the project "Cinema for Peace - training catalogue", which needs to be implemented henceforth with great passion and commitment. Our project offers you the following:

1. The Cinema for Peace School Film Catalogue

We would like to make our catalogue available free of cost to all the schools in Germany involved in general education, to be used in teaching all kinds of disciplines. The Cinema for Peace Catalogue offers a carefully selected collection of feature films and documentaries, which should motivate the younger generation to discuss the problems besieging our times, to pose questions and to search for answers.

A unique feature / USP that specially emphasizes the significance of this catalogue is the topical nature of the films offered. Not only do we offer our audience films, some of which are otherwise not available in Germany, but also make available films that deal with current topics, such as the topic of 'nuclear threat' after the catastrophe in Japan.

2. Movies at School

We offer schools large community film screenings and an ensuing discussion with students, which we will organize for them, partly in collaboration with an actor and a director. The first visit to a school in Berlin was organised by Katja Riemann. Beginning of May, we are going to show "Die Welle' with support from the director, Dennis Gansel.

3. Classroom at the Movies

We invite classes from schools to a film show and to the podium discussion that follows with experts and filmmakers. As part of this, we are showing school children in Berlin and their teachers,  the film "Into Eternity" on the 26th of May. This marks the current event - the catastrophe in Japan.

4. Film Workshop

We call on school children, to shoot their own movie under the guidance of professional filmmakers.

You can download uur School Film Catalogue here: Download Catalog (PDF)

Also we would like to inform you that we are currently working on a revised second edition which will be available this spring.