Championing quality cinema for young audiences
As producers and directors of animated films ourselves, our work has led us to become interested in films and short films for young audiences. Do children have a choice in what they watch?
With an international mission, the Films pour enfants association, governed by the French law of July 1, 1901 and the decree of August 16, 1901, aims to provide, in an educational context, access to auteur animation to children around the world. The association makes it possible, in particular by organising online distribution, to increase the visibility of arthouse films which do not fit into traditional distribution schemes.
According to UNESCO, “universal access to quality education contributes to peace and sustainable social and economic development. OER represents a strategic opportunity to improve the quality of education and strengthen policy dialogue, knowledge sharing and capacity building.”
The association offers, with free and open access for family viewing, poetic films to open children's eyes to the arts.
Children are invited to watch films from the films-pour-enfants.com portal at home with their parents and to work in class with teachers on understanding the story and messages but also on film genres and narrative forms or even the creative processes and techniques for producing images.
A media literacy tool to develop critical thinking, film culture, artistic practice and to discover new careers.
A tool for education through images to explore, taking a cross-curricular approach, other areas of learning (living world, citizenship, etc.), and, across media, the different modes of expression (literature, painting, music, etc.). Links to literary, pictorial or musical works offer ways to explore further.
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