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 les programmes de l'école primaire.
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?
“Children’s Films” is a non-profit association of general interest.
With an international vocation, “Films for Children” wants to offer, in an educational context, access to author's animated cinema to children around the world.
Under the patronage of UNESCO, the association aims to offer parents and childhood professionals regular use of poetic and educational short films as a tool for artistic awakening, educational support, and as a communication tool to better prepare children, spectators and producers of animated images, for the growing video streams to which they are subjected.
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, volunteers, but also 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.
Takorama, developed with international partners, is a festival of silent animated short films aimed at educational, cultural and social structures, parents and children between 3 and 18 years old around the world.
A festival on the theme of humanism and ecology
Under the patronage of UNESCO and with the financial support of the Ministry of National Education and the Ministry of Overseas Territories, the festival is completely free and without advertising.
Every year between April and June, teachers and childcare professionals, but also parents, register online and report the results of their students or children on the site Internet du festival de films.
The children, following viewing, participate in educational activities in class with teachers, at home with parents or in the spaces of participating structures (regional natural parks, eco-museums, associative spaces, etc.) then each child votes for their favorite film, their best film, and awards the children's prize.
The festival’s patron partners also award a prize.
First edition of Takorama International Children's Film Festival in 2020
International Children's Film Festival
International Children's Film Festival
In 2021, 340,418 participants: 10,161 teachers, 4,092 parents and 326,165 children (303,190 at school and 22,975 at home) from 115 countries participated in the festival; France represents 77% of global participation.
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The Children's Films 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 Ministry of National Education and the CNC (National Center for Cinema and Animated Images), 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.
Children's Films, winner of the World Media Literacy Awards
As part of its image education action, in 2021 the association received 1st prize in the World Media Education Awards 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 supporting and supporting 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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