Films pour enfants

Bottle

Children's film about friendship

An impossible friendship.

Synopsis

The friendship between a sandman and a snowman who correspond by throwing bottles into the sea.

Bottle

Commentary: Bottle

A moving short film about an impossible friendship. Snowman, an essential game for many children. Why not invite the students in your class to create, like this stop-motion film, a volume animation with sand or snow, a story based on photos?

Questions about the film: Bottle

Understand the story and themes, express your feelings and develop critical thinking.

1Who are the main characters in the film?
A sandman and a snowman.
2What do they do in the film?
They communicate, establish a correspondence by sending a bottle to the sea.
3What do they communicate with? With words? By texts?
They do not communicate with words but with elements of their environment. The snowman sends snow, pine needles... The sandman sends sand, algae, shells...
4Why do the two characters seek to communicate?
Maybe they feel alone? Maybe they are looking for a friend?
5What is the end of the film?
The two characters decide to actually meet and cross the sea as a merchant on the seabed. Unfortunately, their nature does not allow them to stay in water for long: they both dissolve.
6Today, how do we communicate most? With what tools?
With telephones, smartphones, emails but also social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram...).
7What is a sender and a recipient?
A sender is what sends a message and a receiver is what receives it.

Download the film's educational activities in PDF

Created with the support of the Ministry of National Education and the CNC.

Watching the film with the family, educational activities with parents at home and with teachers in class.

Do a dissolution experience (Question the world) (3-11 years)
Educational activities proposed by Marjolaine Rouzeau based on the film Bottle.
Making a connection (French) (6-11 years)
Educational activities proposed by Marjolaine Rouzeau based on the film Bottle.

Theme

Civic education

Genre & keywords

Friendship, Narrative, friendship, snowman, sandman, bottle in the sea sea, correspondence

Recommended age

3 years old

Duration

5 min 25 s

Title

Bottle

Realization

Kirsten Lepore

Production

2011

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