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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.
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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, Iñigo 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 /
Goodbye Berlin. Tschick
Dir.: Fatih Akin
Based on a novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf. Maik is a 14-year-old boy who is marginalized by his class. At the beginning of the summer vacation, he is left alone at home.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Original version in German 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: Form class (Pastoral care) / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Literature / Contemporary world / German Language /
Topics: adolescence, youth / means of transportation and /or traffic safety education / sexuality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, abortion / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / human relations, psychology, sociology / alcoholisme, drugaddictions / family, family relationships / film adaptation of literary or graphic work / judicial system, prisons, death penalty /
Goya's Ghosts
Dir.: Milos Forman
The Spanish painter Goya becomes involved with the Inquisition when his muse, Ines, is arrested by the church for heresy. Her father, Thomas, comes to him hoping that his connection with Brother Lorenzo, whom he is painting, can secure the release of his daughter.
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Educational Grades: ,,,,,Secondary school, 14 to 16,Sixth form college,Further education,Further Edu, mature students,,
Subjects: Social Science, Geography and History / Art and Design / Art History / History /
Topics: culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / architecture and urban planning, painting, sculpture / biographies, autobiographies / politics, political systems /
Gravity
Dir.: Alfonso Cuarón
Dr. Ryan Stone (Sandra Bullock) is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney) in command of his last flight before retiring. But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes and the shuttle is destroyed.
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: English language / Social Science, Geography and History / Design and Technology / Contemporary world / Earth Sciences /
Topics: natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / women (and/or violence against women) / means of transportation and /or traffic safety education / medicine, health / world of work, employment relationships / human relations, psychology, sociology /
Great Minds
Dir.: Olivier Ayache-Vidal
François Foucault, veteran professor of French literature must adapt to a new social reality in which culture and the desire for knowledge are not the priority of his students.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Original version in French 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: Form class (Pastoral care) / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / French / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / adolescence, youth / cultural diversity, immigration, emigration / world of work, employment relationships / human relations, psychology, sociology / family, family relationships / educational world, coeducation, teacher-student relationships / human rights /
Gulliver's Travels
Dir.: Rob Letterman
Lemuel Gulliver has been working in the mail room of a New York daily newspaper for the past ten years. One day Darcy Silverman, the newspaper's travel editor sends him on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Versió original en anglès subtitulada en castellà
Educational Grades: ,,,Upper Primary school,Secondary school, 12 to 14,,,,,,
Subjects: English language / Natural science and social sciences (Primary School) / Literature /
Topics: human relations, psychology, sociology / journalism, mass media, advertising / film adaptation of literary or graphic work /
Hachiko: A Dog's Story
Dir.: Lasse Hallström
Parker Wilson, a professor of music, found an abandoned dog at the train station and took it home. After failing to find the owner they decide to keep it. However, a tragedy tests the dog's loyalty.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year: Versió original en anglès subtitulada en català.
Educational Grades: ,,,Upper Primary school,Secondary school, 12 to 14,,,,,,
Subjects: Catalan language and literature / English language / Citizenship (Primary School) / Citizenship (Secondary School) /
Topics: animal world and pets / biographies, autobiographies / family, family relationships /
Hannah Arendt
Dir.: Margarethe von Trotta
A look at the life of philosopher and political theorist Hannah Arendt, who reported for The New Yorker on the war crimes trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann.
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Educational Grades: ,,,,,,,,,Higher Education,
Subjects: English language / Citizenship (Sixth Form College) / Philosophy and History of Philosophy / Contemporary world / History /
Topics: women (and/or violence against women) / culture of peace, violence, political and armed conflicts. / biographies, autobiographies / human relations, psychology, sociology / journalism, mass media, advertising / human rights / books and writing / judicial system, prisons, death penalty / politics, political systems /
Hanuman
Dir.: Fred Fougea
A young Scot discovers, at an auction in London, a statue of Hanuman the God of the Apes, which his father had found a long time ago when his family lived in India. Determined to stop this illegal and lucrative art theft, he goes back to the mythological kingdom of primates.
Language of the film version shown in the current academic year:
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) / Religion / Natural Science / Social Science, Geography and History / Citizenship (Secondary School) / Contemporary world / Art History /
Topics: education in human values / natural resources, wealth and poverty, commerce, consumption / ecology, environment, sustainability / human geography / animal world and pets / ancient civilizations, archaeology, mythology / architecture and urban planning, painting, sculpture /
