Children’s rights and movies

Cinema

All students need to know their rights to be able to respect them. From Grup IREF we want to contribute to the education for children’s rights by proposing a series of movies and a teacher’s guide for each one. The guide offers activities to discuss and reflect on Children’s rights presented in these movies.

Aims:

Let students know their rights and make them reflect on their citizenship.
KNOW THEIR RIGHTS.

Help them to make connections between life in the classroom and outside the classroom, as spectators or consumers of film products and, at the same time, as thinkers who can reason, have understanding, conceptualisation , knowledge about geography, history, etc.
APPLY KNOWLEDGE

Open the classroom to other languages, and other ways of communication.
USE DIVERSE LANGUAGES

Present movies from different countries to amplify our world view about cultures, religion, laws, morality, attitudes, TO GET MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

To introduce cinema as a text in the classroom, as a different narrative.
THE LANGUAGE OF CINEMA

This proposal has a double dimension:

To introduce children and young people to their rights.
To introduce children and young people to cinema language.

In this sense, we propose to work with movie themes and with the movie as a film.

Note: In this LINK you will find proposals in pdf format to work with. They are in Catalan, but you can translate them with a good translator on-line.

Right’s Article	Film	Country and year	Theme	Film element
Article 1	Billy Elliot	Great Britain, 2000	Gender	Team work
Article 2	Ça commence Aujourd’ui	France, 1999	Maltreatment/ Abuse	The plot
Article 3	Rabbit-Proof Fence	Australia, 2003	Identity	Punctuation system
Article 4	The Kid	USA, 1921	Care, Welfare	Actors
Article 5	The Color of Paradise	Iran, 1999	Disabilities	Film shots
Article 6	La vitta è bella	Italy, 1999	Protection	Music
Article 7	Not One less	China, 1999	Education	Frames
Article 8	John Q.	USA, 2001	Help, auxil	Camera Movements
Article 9	Central do Brasil	Brasil, 1997	Abandon and explotation	Assembly
Article 10	Promisses	USA, 2001	Solidarity and Friendship	Documental

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