Școala Altfel with CinEd Romania

     After having organized more training sessions for the educational facilitators in five counties, the CinEd Romania film education program entered its next stage. In March and April, more than 20 screenings for students of all grades are scheduled.
     During the training sessions organized these past few months by the NexT Cultural Society, almost 200 teachers and public librarians participated. “The purpose of the training sessions is always that of encouraging the teachers to more confidently get close to the art cinema. That means we suggest to them a number of activities by means of which they can approach a film with their students, or a fragment of a film, both from the point of view of the theme stakes and also of the ways they translate stylistically. Many times we try to take as term of comparison the classical film language that they are more used to, as viewers, but we also try to trace possible interdisciplinary directions. We try to show them that you can speak about a film without necessarily having a specialized terminology, but rather a way of looking, which starts from noticing some particular elements which can be inductively guided towards analyzing them and interpreting them”, the film critic Andreea Mihalcea stated. She is the moderator of the training sessions of the 4th CinEd year.
     Some of the educational facilitators who took part in the training sessions this year will actively get involved in organizing the film screenings in April, a period which is preferred by many schools for the Săptămâna Altfel, in at least 10 localities around the country: București, Ploiești, Berevoești, Videle, Hălchiu, Brașov, Piatra-Neamț, Brăila, Alexandria și Târgu-Mureș.
The students will actively attend the screenings from the CinEd catalogue and the interactive debates from after the screenings, coordinated by experts such as Anca Caramelea, Iulia Blaga, Georgiana Vrăjitoru și Ionuț Mareș. There is no participation fee.
     The films prepared for the primary school kids are: Rentrée des classes (1956, France, directed by Jacques Rozier), Petite lumière(2003, France-Senegal, directed by Alain Gomis) and The Blue Tiger (directed by Petr Oukropec, Czech Republic, 2012). The kids from the secondary school will be able to watch and discuss the following films: El espiritu de la colmena (1973, Spain, directed by Víctor Erice) and Shelter (2010, Bulgaria, directed by Dragomir Sholev). The films prepared for the high school students are: Il posto (1961, Italy, directed by Ermanno Olmi) and Pierrot le fou (1965, France, directed by Jean-Luc Godard).
     The CinEd catalogue includes 16 art films from 8 European countries (France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria, Finland< the Czech Republic and Romania). The screening formats available allow presenting them in different spaces – from cinemas with professional standards to classrooms or libraries. This way, the program gives access to a series of heritage European film productions, or to films that received many awards in international festivals, with authentic value.
     More details about the special events prepared by CinEd Romania until the end of the school year will be made public by the end of April.
      Details: Next Film Education