Films pour enfants

Rain and Fish

Why is boredom necessary for children's development?

Boredom in the service of imagination.

Synopsis

One rainy day, a little boy waits for the bus and lets his imagination run wild. Images come to mind.

Rain and Fish
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Rain and Fish © Tokyo University of the Arts

Commentary on the film

A poetic film for children about the necessity of boredom, this time so necessary for children's development. The short film “Rain and Fish” was selected at the Takorama 2020 festival organized by the Films pour enfants association.

Questions about the film

Understand the story, the theme, express your sensitivity and exercise your critical thinking.
“Rain and fish” was chosen by Anne-Marie Filho, honorary academy inspector, as an example to illustrate the methods of questioning a film.
A questioning constructed according to the reflections of the students at the moment when they discover the object to be studied and react; the organization of these reflections and their development will necessarily make it possible to achieve the objectives set for the analysis, for the apprehension of meaning, which remain identical in both modalities; the interest of this second approach is to create the conditions for the progressive acquisition of a method, of autonomy, including by gradually making students aware of the existence of invariants in their observations.
While adapting to their age and level, it is the teacher's responsibility to invite students to reflect on the strategies they use to question, analyze and understand, so that they can criticize them, assimilate them, and be able to appropriate them, reuse them and make them evolve.
The file addresses the following points from the short film “Rain and fish”:
- Maintain the objective of image education.
- From the mobilization of personal experience to that of knowledge.
- Exploration.
- The narration. Pitch, summary, synopsis.
- The place, the decor.
- The characters.
- The action.
- The theme.
- The soundtrack.
- The network film.

Download the film's educational activities as a PDF

Created with the support of the French Ministry of Education and the French National Center for Cinema and Animated Images (CNC).

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

▸ Sequence on the theme of disappearance (English) (ages 6 to 11)
Educational activities proposed by Ona Ya from the Ona Ya blog based on the film Rain and Fish.
▸ Create a fresco (Visual arts) (ages 6 to 11)
Educational activities proposed by Valérie from the Val 10 blog based on the film Rain and Fish.

TitleRain and Fish

ThemeImagination

Genre & keywordsAbstract, Rain, Waiting, Fish, Imaginary

Recommended age5 years old

Duration4 min 47 s

DirectorReina Kanemitsu

ProductionTokyo University of the Arts

Year of production2010

Country of productionJapan

MusicYusaku Masuda

Sound designTakuji Oe

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