Discover all children's films
Free open access and without advertising
Poetic films to educate children about artistic practices
Educational films to accompany school programs
Like books, painting or music, children's films allow you to build tastes.
Our portal focuses on the poetic dimension of films and the originality of their messages and visual universes.
It is sometimes difficult to choose a children's film.
Few original films or cartoons on television, in the cinema or on DVD, but on the internet, more and more quality films are offered in free and legal open access by directors and production companies.
Artistic awakening and educational support
Short films help maintain children's attention and are particularly suitable for educating young children because their messages are varied and their visual worlds are original.
© Marjolaine Rouzeau. Cinema and pedagogy
However, it is difficult for parents and teachers to find them.
In France, wonderful initiatives in favor of young audiences offer children the opportunity to discover quality films.
The Passeurs d'images association coordinates the École et cinéma system previously set up by Les Enfants de cinéma; accompanied by the online educational platform NANOUK, this system opens the doors of cinemas to children in nursery and elementary schools; more than 10,000 schools and one million students benefit from this system each year.
Other associations like Rêve de Cinéma transform hospitals and centers for sick or disabled children into real projection rooms and offer cinematographic works for the joy of children.
Ciclic, the Centre-Val de Loire regional agency for books, images and digital culture, offers with UPOPI, a web magazine and an educational platform, short films with free access and numerous high-quality educational files.
Access to cinematic culture
Within the school establishment with teachers and at home with parents, there are still few mechanisms to allow children to watch quality films or videos.
Looking for an alternative to offer more choice to teachers, parents and children, we select, while respecting copyright, free short films which are not usually offered to children but which are all perfectly suited to the little ones.
Varied messages and original universes
As with books, painting or music, films allow you to build tastes and it is important for children to have an opinion on films, to know what they like or not. Our portal of short films for children focuses on the poetic dimension of films and the originality of their universes, with the educational objective of becoming a tool for artistic awakening.
Building tastes
Are you a teacher, nursery school teacher?
Are you looking for a film or cartoon for children?
A short film for preschoolers?
A film to watch with family or friends?
We select free streaming children's movies.
Discover our selection of films suitable for young children...
Two different approaches to teaching.
Why show films or videos, for what educational purposes?
Choose a film based on its use
Stimulate students’ artistic sensitivity? Enrich a subject studied at school?
Introduce young children to the magical world of images? Create a workshop?
Awareness tool to spark a family discussion?
Methodology and tools for choosing a film.
The age of the children? The originality of the stories and visual universes?
Learning themes at school? Cinematographic genres?
What do we offer children?
How and where to find quality films, a free children's film?
Knowing what others like can be helpful when choosing.
Learn more about how to choose a film for young audiences...
Visual arts, including cinema, contribute to artistic practices at school but they can also raise children's awareness of other areas of learning and be used as an educational support tool.
Intended for teachers and school professors, our catalog of films, cartoons and themed short films aims to support the subjects studied in class with students but also to invite parents to watch quality films as a family with children.
An educational support tool
For children from the beginning of kindergarten to the end of elementary school, these thematic programs, such as moral instruction, the living world, music, are in accordance with the primary school curriculum.
They contain between 3 and 6 films for a total duration of 20 to 30 minutes.
© Christophe Defaye. film screening session
Are you a teacher and looking for new teaching materials?
Are you looking for films about ecology, friendship, memory?
In order to highlight a part of the behind-the-scenes of creation, a questionnaire to reveal a little of the tastes and aspirations of the directors.
50 creators take part in the game.
© The directors
The character who touched you the most?
The character that scared you the most?
The character you would most like to meet?
The character you would like to reincarnate as (^_^)?
The world you would like to live in?
The world you wouldn't want to live in?
What role would you like to play in a work of fiction?
Your earliest memory of fiction?
Your favorite word?
Music you would like to listen to now?
“Films pour enfants” is a non-profit association of general interest.
With an international vocation, “Films pour enfants” wants to offer children around the world, in an educational context, access to auteur animated cinema.
The association has developed several projects under the patronage of UNESCO, with the aim of offering parents and childhood professionals the regular use of poetic and educational short films as a tool for artistic awakening and educational support, and as a communication tool to better prepare children — viewers and producers of animated images — for the ever-growing video streams to which they are exposed.
A place to share about education, cinema and children's creativity.
Come share your passion, your experience or your desires!
Discover the objectives of the association...
Always looking for new members and volunteers, but also for patrons who would like to associate their company with the dissemination of auteur cinema, the artistic education of children and cultural democratization.
Discover the association's partners...
Serge Tisseron, Elodie Fondacci and Delphine Maury support the association.
The “Films pour enfants” association developed, in the context of the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, a festival of silent animated short films for educational, cultural and social structures, for parents and for children aged 3 to 18 around the world.
Takorama, a festival on the themes of humanism and ecology
Under the patronage of UNESCO and with the financial support of the ministère de l'Éducation nationale and the ministère des Outre-mer for France, and of EKOME (National Audiovisual Media Centre and Communication) for Greece, all participants — children, teachers and parents — enjoyed the festival free of charge and without advertising.
Between April and June, children around the world, after watching the films, took part in educational activities in class with their teachers, at home with their parents or in the spaces of participating structures (regional natural parks, eco-museums, community spaces...), and then each child voted for their favorite film, their best film, to award the children's prize.
First edition of the Takorama International Children's Film Festival in 2020
The children's high level of participation led us to extend the Takorama festival over four years, making possible the participation of one million participants in 120 countries: 950,000 children, accompanied by 50,000 teachers, educators and parents. France accounted for about 75% of worldwide participation, with major hubs in Greece, thanks to the partnership with EKOME, and in Brazil, thanks to the partnership with Liana Vila Nova.
The Films pour enfants portal aims to offer short films in an educational context and to raise children's awareness of artistic practices and to better prepare them for the growing flow of animated images.
Aimed at teachers and education professionals and with the support of the ministère de l'Éducation nationale and the CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée), numerous educational resources were created in 2019 by a team of 20 teachers and cinema professionals.
Initially intended for teachers who have taken out a subscription, since 2022 the sheets have been made available free of charge to all.
Films pour enfants, winner of the Prix mondiaux de l'éducation aux médias
As part of its image education action, in 2021 the association received 1st prize in the Prix mondiaux de l'éducation aux médias awarded by UNESCO.
An image education tool
To develop critical thinking, cinematographic culture and personal artistic practice.
Children are invited to work on understanding stories and messages but also on cinematographic genres and narrative forms, or even creative processes and image production techniques.
An education tool through images
To approach, with a concern for transversality, other areas of learning (living world, history-geography, citizenship, etc.), and transmediality, the different modes of expression (literature, painting, music, etc.).
Beyond cinematographic and artistic education, the short film portal aims to affirm the educational dimension of cinema by positioning it in particular alongside literature and painting as a resource capable of accompanying and underpinning all teaching; In particular, it will allow children to consider animated images not only as entertainment but as a communication tool.
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