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Films for K-12


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This collection showcases our most popular films for younger audiences, helping to foster curiosity and awareness regarding key global issues and cultivating media literacy.

Films for K-12 Collection

  • Race to Nowhere
    Race to Nowhere
    Director: Vicki Abeles   Jessica Congdon   | Year of production: 2009
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 85 min.

    Featuring the heartbreaking stories of students across the country who have been pushed to the brink by over-scheduling, over-testing and the relentless pressure to achieve, “Race to Nowhere” points to a silent epidemic in our schools. Through the testimony of educators, parents and education experts, it reveals an education system in which cheating has become commonplace; students have become disengaged; stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant; and young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired.

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  • Oleg and the War
    Oleg and the War
    Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont   | Year of production: 2018
    Country of production: Denmark, Finland, Sweden | Language: Ukrainian (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 40 min.

    Ten-year-old Oleg lives in eastern Ukraine. He often plays with his younger cousin Yarik and older neighbor Kostya. Instead of playing on swings, they play in abandoned soldier warehouses, where mines and bullets scatter the floor. Instead of playing with a toy football, they play with a real gun. Oleg and his friends learn that their ‘toys’ can be dangerous, and their games might have real consequences. This film follows a year in the life of Oleg, highlighting how children can still have fun despite frightening circumstances.

    Stand with Oleg, take action.

    Oleg and the War is the children’s version of the award winning film The Distant Barking of Dogs.

  • In My Room
    In My Room
    Director: Ayelet Albenda   | Year of production: 2017
    Country of production: Israel, United Kingdom, USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 70 min.

    “In My Room” is a coming of age film. It takes place within the walls of the rooms of 6 teenagers around the world. It is based on archival materials shot by them behind closed doors and then posted on YouTube. They are not internet sensations or celebrities, just teenagers talking to themselves and to anyone who is willing to listen. The film follows a chronological timeline. It starts in 2008, the year they shot their first videos, and follows them throughout their presence on YouTube.

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  • #chicagoGirl
    #chicagoGirl
    Director: Joe Piscatella   | Year of production: 2013
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 74/54 min.

    From her childhood bedroom in suburban Chicago, Ala’a, a 19-year-old American girl coordinates the revolution in Syria.
    Armed with Facebook, Twitter, Skype and cameraphones, she helps her social network “on the ground” in Syria brave snipers and shelling in the streets to show the world the human rights atrocities of a dictator. But just because the world can see the violence doesn’t mean the world can help. As the revolution rages on, everyone in the network must decide what is the most effective way to fight a dictator: social media or AK-47s.

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  • American Promise
    American Promise
    Director: Joe Brewster   | Year of production: 2013
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 125/80/50/20 min.

    AMERICAN PROMISE spans 12 years in the lives of two middle class black families as they navigate their family experience when they choose to send their two young sons to a prestigious Manhattan private school. With a sharp and merciless camera, filmmakers/parents Joe and Michele intimately document the struggles as these talented boys deal with stereotypes and identity issues, while their parents juggle high expectations against the social and cultural obstacles their sons face. Convinced that education is the key to success in the 21st century, these families make enormous sacrifices for an elite education. But will the rewards be there?

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  • The Crash Reel
    The Crash Reel
    Director: Lucy Walker   | Year of production: 2013
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 109 min

    The dramatic story of one unforgettable athlete, Kevin Pearce; one eye-popping sport, snowboarding; and one explosive issue, Traumatic Brain Injury. A comeback story with a difference.
    This visually arresting film seamlessly combines twenty years of stunning action footage with new specially-shot verité footage and interviews as it follows U.S. champion snowboarder Kevin Pearce and exposes the irresistible but potentially fatal appeal of extreme sports.

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  • Girl Rising
    Girl Rising
    Director: Richard E. Robbins   | Year of production: 2013
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 101 min

    GIRL RISING journeys around the globe to witness the strength of the human spirit and the power of education to change the world. Viewers get to know nine unforgettable girls living in the developing world: ordinary girls who confront tremendous challenges and overcome nearly impossible odds to pursue their dreams. Prize-winning authors put the girls’ remarkable stories into words, and renowned actors (including Meryl Streep and Salma Hayek) give them voice.

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  • Music From the Inside Out (FT)
    Music From the Inside Out (FT)
    Director: Daniel Anker   | Year of production: 2006
    Country of production: USA | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 90 min.

    Filmed over a period of five years on three continents, the film is the result of the collaboration between the filmmaker and the musicians themselves. Unique in style and approach, the main character of this film is music itself. An eclectic soundtrack incorporates a blend of well-loved musical works-including classical, jazz, bluegrass, salsa and world music.
    It is about the many people within one musical ensemble, it is ultimately a personal musical journey. Each musician’s story reveals a struggle to maintain individuality, to test musical boundaries and to choose the path of an artist.

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  • White Black Boy
    White Black Boy
    Director: Camilla Magid   | Year of production: 2012
    Country of production: Denmark | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 57 min.

    In Tanzania albino body parts and blood are used in magic potions created by witch doctors and are sold for huge amounts of money. To protect albino children, the government sends them to boarding schools, far away from their families. Here they live more or less abandoned in a world without adults, small children taking care of even smaller.
    Following Shida through his first year at his new home, we see from a child’s pespective the consequences of being hunted and unwanted.

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  • Project Wild Thing
    Project Wild Thing
    Director: David Bond   | Year of production: 2013
    Country of production: United Kingdom | Language: English (with full English subtitles available)
    Running Time: 54/80 min.

    David Bond is concerned. His kids’ waking hours are dominated by a cacophony of marketing, and a screen dependence threatening to turn them into glassy-eyed zombies. Like city kids everywhere, they spend way too much time indoors – not like it was back in his day. He decides it’s time to get back to nature – literally. In an attempt to compete with the brands, which take up a third of his daughter’s life, Bond appoints himself Marketing Director for Nature.
    David’s humorous journey unearths some painful truths about modern family life.

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