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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 /
Thérèse
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 /
Tokyo Fiancée
Dir.: Stefan Liberski
Amelie is a 20-years-old Belgian dreamy girl who returns to Japan, a country where she spent part of her childhood. There she teaches French for a living and meets Rinri, a young Japanese boy who becomes her first and only student.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: French version with subtitles in Spanish
Educational Grades: ,,,,,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,Higher Education,
Subjects: Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Literature / French / Contemporary world /
Topics: education in human values / women (and/or violence against women) / adolescence, youth / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human relations, psychology, sociology / educational world, coeducation, teacher-student relationships / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
Tom Sawyer
Dir.: Hermine Huntgeburth
The film is based on Mark Twain's masterpiece. Tom lives with Aunt Polly in the small town of St. Petersburg, near the Mississippi River. Tom is the leader of his "gang" of boys, leading them on a series of escapades drawn from the novels he has read of pirates and thieves.
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) / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Literature /
Topics: education in human values / children, children’s rights / family, family relationships / film adaptation of literary or graphic work / judicial system, prisons, death penalty /
Tom Thumb
Dir.: Olivier Dahan
This film is based on the French fairy tale "Le petit poucet" by Charles Perrault. Poucet is a kid from a family of numerous children. The parents, too poor to feed them, decide to abandon the children in the forest.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
Educational Grades: ,,Middle school,Upper Primary school,,,,,,,
Subjects: Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Literature / French /
Topics: children, children’s rights / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
Tomboy
Dir.: Céline Sciamma
A family moves into a new neighborhood, and a 10-year-old born Laure deliberately presents as a boy named Mickäel to the neighborhood children.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Spanish dubbed version
Educational Grades: ,,,Upper Primary school,Secondary school, 12 to 14,,,,,,
Subjects: Spanish language and literature / Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Citizenship (Primary School) / Form class (Pastoral care) / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Contemporary world /
Topics: education in human values / children, children’s rights / sexuality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, abortion / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships /
Tous les soleils
Dir.: Philippe Claudel
Alessandro teaches musicology at the University of Strasbourg. He shares his apartment with his 15-year-old daughter, Irina, and his anarchist brother Luigi. Irina is rapidly changing from little girl to teenager and wishes to be treated as such.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: French version with subtitles in Catalan
Educational Grades: ,,,,Secondary school, 12 to 14,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,Higher Education,
Subjects: French / Contemporary world / Music and History of the Music / Performing arts, Music and Dance /
Topics: adolescence, youth / family, family relationships / educational world, coeducation, teacher-student relationships / death and grief /