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On Friday 21 October 2022, Luxembourg's Minister of Education, Children and Youth, Claude Meisch, and the Minister of Culture, Sam Tanson, presented films4schools, a project developed and supported by the SCRIPT (Service de coordination de la recherche et de l’innovation pédagogiques et technologiques), the National Audiovisual Centre (Centre national de l'audiovisuel - CNA), the Filmakademie and the ZpB (Zentrum fir politesch Bildung).
The films4schools.lu platform provides teachers in the country with films, produced or co-produced in Luxembourg, to watch and study with their students. The films, of educational and cultural interest, are accompanied by educational files.
“Films4schools brings real educational added value to media education and more particularly to image. The platform will allow students to approach certain themes from an innovative angle, thanks to Luxembourg audiovisual production and the corresponding educational material. Films4schools is a new tool for learning three of the five key skills of the 21st century (the 5Cs): creativity, critical thinking and communication,” said Minister Meisch.
Minister Tanson said: “The films4schools project makes Luxembourg's film production accessible to teachers and students in all its richness and diversity. Thanks to the didactic material accompanying the works, the teachers will be able to deal with all the aspects – society, history, cinematographic aesthetics – of the works concerned with their classes. It's also a great way to make the younger generations aware of the national cinematographic heritage".
An instrument for citizenship and media education
The project intends to facilitate the provision, on a platform reserved for teachers of primary schools and public and private secondary schools applying the official programmes, of works chosen according to their artistic and cultural value and their educational interest for use in the classroom.
The various media offered by the platform aim to encourage debate on socio-political questions and issues in Luxembourg and around the world.
According to the ministries, in an increasingly digitalised environment, films4schools offers a new reliable educational tool to interpret, contextualise and analyse images and their codes.
Thanks to the educational and support work of teachers, films4schools will allow students to build the foundations of image analysis and a quality cinematographic culture.
In addition, films4schools, which teachers from the National Institute of Languages can also use, supports the learning of Luxembourgish, by allowing access to original works
A varied catalog, in constant evolution
The platform, developed by SCRIPT, is accessible to all teachers with an IAM account, directly via the site: https://www.films4schools.lu.
24 Luxembourg films, productions or co-productions initially make up the catalogue.
Accompanied by educational files, mostly designed either by the production companies themselves or by the ZpB or the CNA, will make it possible to give leads for the before and after screening, in order to prepare and deepen the experience of the students in class.
The catalog includes fiction films, animation and documentaries dealing with various subjects such as Luxembourg history, the environment, migration and cohabitation. The catalogue will be regularly expanded, with the addition of more or less five films per year, on the decision of a governance committee, made up of representatives of the four project partners.
The content of films4schools is managed by the Filmakademie, which also provides the link with the film industry.
Thanks to films4schools, teachers now have easy and quick access to films in good resolution, while respecting copyrights. They can screen the films in the classroom but also, via a form on the platform, organise screenings themselves in the cinema, thus enhancing the cinematographic experience.
