FILM AND LANGUAGE LEARNING WITH DISCOVERY
"It helped our learning because we were watching something with a gripping story that was in the language we are learning, and we all realised we could understand a bit. It just made us realise how much we are learning but it was funner, a lot funner." Pupil feedback 2007
"Fantastic, It opened my eyes on a more exciting and creative way of delivering Modern Foreign Languages". Teacher feedback 2007
LIVE LESSON FOR LANGUAGES
NEW at the Discovery Festival French Primary (P6 and P7)
France 2007
Each screening, including discussion, lasts 1 hour
French dialogue with English subtitles
This event combines three contemporary animated short films with a French language lesson. Great for French language learners as a cultural cinema experience and as an introduction to moving image education. Details of the films plus free resources (written by Modern Language teachers) to help plan and follow up a visit can be found here
IRINKA AND SANDRINKA
France Belgium 2007
Directors Sandrine Stoanov, Jean Charles-Finck
Produced by Les Films du Nord
2D mixed media animation
Programme total 16mins
Sat 1 Nov at 6pm
Fifty years separate Iréne and Sandrine. One, from Russian nobility, lived through the fall of the regime, the absence of an exiled father, and an adoptive family. The other grew up spending her playtime reconstructing a fairy-tale Russian world.
HUGH
France 2007
Directors Mathieu Navarro, Sylvain Nouveau, François Pommier, Aurore Turbé
Produced by Les Films du Nord
CGI animation
Programme total 9mins
Sat 1 Nov at 6pm
What happens when the sky is too low ? Based on an apache legend.
LA QUEUE DE LA SOURIS
France 2007
Director Benjamin Renner
Produced by La Poudrière
Produced by Les Films du Nord
2D mixed media animation
Programme total 4mins
Sat 1 Nov at 6pm
In a forest, a lion captures a mouse and threatens to eat it up. But the mouse suggests a deal.
Programme total 29 mins
Live Lesson for Languages Presentation with screenings total 60min
Dundee Contemporary Arts Wed 22 Oct 1.30
Dundee Contemporary Arts Mon 27 Oct 1.30
Dundee Contemporary Arts Thur 30 Oct 1.30
Dunfermline Carnegie Hall Tue 28 Oct 1pm
Stirling Macrobert Wed Oct 29 10.30am
PLUS LIVE LESSON FOR LANGUAGES ON TOUR
For information on our three programmes of further Live Lesson for Languages short films that are currently still available to tour at schools and other venues see [LINK to http://www.scilt.stir.ac.uk/events/2008/06/18/live-lesson-for-languages-2008-discovery-festival-programme/] Download preparatory resources for these films for Primary 4 to 7 (French) or Secondary S1 to S6 (French and German) age pupils here.
MORE FEATURE FILMS TO SUPPORT LANGUAGE LEARNING AT THE DISCOVERY FESTIVAL
NOCTURNA in Spanish
2007 Spain
for P6 upwards
Directors Victor Maldonado and Adria Garcia
Programme total 80mins
Dundee Contemporary Arts Thur 30 Oct 1.30pm
Spanish dialogue with English subtitles
Nocturna is suitable for all ages and we are proud to present a special screening for modern language learners which will be in the original Spanish Language with English subtitles. Find out more about this fabulous film at www.nocturna-lefilm.com. This screening is supported by the Consejeria De Educacion.
MAX MINSKY AND ME
Germany 2007
for P6 upwards
Director Anna Justice
Programme total 94mins
Dundee Contemporary Arts Mon 27 1.30pm
Stirling Macrobert Tue 28 Oct 10.30am
Spanish dialogue with English subtitles
This comedy drama is suitable for all ages of German language learners. It is the touching and funny story of a very unlikely friendship. Nelly Sue Edelmeister is an intelligent thirteen-year-old Berlin school girl with a brilliant career in astronomy ahead of her. But Nelly wants to learn basketball in order to meet her idol and has to make friends with misfit teenager Max in order to get what she wants. A smart and entertaining film that takes a lighthearted look at more complex cultural issues around the Jewish community in contemporary Berlin. The screening is presented in partnership with the Goethe Institute and accompanied by a short welcome and introduction by a guest German speaker. A resource pack will be available from http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/gla/deindex.htm
