Film 7 – Al Khair Primary School UK – Life Is a Journey, Take Me With You
Languages: Arabic, Swahili, Turkish, Somali, Urdu, French, German, Spanish, English
A traveller has left his town in search of happiness, only to discover that happiness lies within himself, in helping others and spreading joy around him. On his journey looking for happiness he meets people in need. Together they learn a valuable moral lesson: happiness is within yourself and helping those around him.
Film 8 – Europa School UK – Weltraum Café – Space Café
Languages: German, English
Earlier this year we ran a pancake cafe in class, cooking food to share with each other and welcoming guests from other classes. Inspired by this real life experience of “community” we created an imaginative picture book about a cafe in space that welcomes all space travellers and provides them with food and drink. First we drew pictures to develop ideas for our story. Then we placed paper characters and props on big background pictures to create scenes for our book. Each child took photos with a digital camera. We added audio recordings to these images to make our film.
Film 9 – St Jerome Church of England Bilingual School, UK – A Rainforest Community Sharing Hope
The ‘Planet Club children’ wanted their story to be focused on a rainforest community which has to face the human destroyers. The children wanted not only to raise awareness about deforestation, but also to inspire hope that the situation can change. In the beginning of the story the rainforest is clean and beautiful. The flowers are blooming, the birds are singing happily, all the animals live in harmony. But, suddenly everything is going to change with the arrival of the human destroyers.
Film 10 – Herz Jesu Institut Italy, Face It – Stay Strong – Not Alone
Languages – German dialect, Standard German, Italian, Ladin, Albanian, English
Our films are about feelings that can change from positive to negative or from negative to positive emotions. They are about anxiety, loneliness, bullying and feeling different as well as acceptance, kindness, care and friendship as a healing power which makes people happy. The message of the three films is that fears and worries can be overcome by the care and support of friends and family members. We collected ideas for a comic, we drew and wrote the story und used it as a storyboard for our films.
Film 11 – Europa School UK – Lost in the Mirror
Languages: German, English
Our film is about a girl called Eloise who returns to school after the summer holidays and realises that all of her friends are much cooler now. She imagines them turning away from her but then she finds a mirror in the bathroom. When she looks into it, she tells herself to change to fit in more, and she decides to keep the mirror. After buying some new clothes and doing her hair and her makeup, she receives compliments from all her friends. She thinks that it’s helping, but inside, pretending to be someone else is taking a toll.
Film 12 – Europa School UK – Hope
Languages: French, Italian, English
Hello and welcome to our film. We have decided to make our film about bullying, body-shaming, social media and hope because these are all things that affect our generation as a whole. The film is very short and we have included a lot of symbolism into it.
Film 13 – Peace School UK – Islamophobia
Languages: Arabic, English
In this film we will touching upon the overlooked and undervalued topic of Islamophobia. It is a topic and subject that the media continues to hide and push away from the eyes of society. We will be looking at it from the point of view of youth and the real experiences of people. We used images and articles form the media all around the world highlighting how this is an issue that Muslims experience universally.
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