RomânăThe Minimest Academy 2024
The Minimest Academy is an educational project that aims to add animation to the educator’s toolkit by offering teachers and parents free quality resources that will introduce 3 to 14-year-olds to cinema culture and allow them to seamlessly pick up new academic concepts in an array of transdisciplinary fields.
The project promotes inclusion, diversity and tolerance (with themes and approaches personalized depending on the three targeted age groups: 3-6, 7-10 and 11-14-year-olds), critical thinking, democracy, inclusive education, and active learning. The animated films selected illustrate these themes, highlighting values such as friendship, respect towards people that are different to us, non-violence, ecology, the right to education, one’s relationship to family, intergenerational interactions, and European values.
During May 1 – June 20 2024, Animest will give free online access to a selection of movies, alongside relevant activities, which can be used in an individual or classroom setting. Below, we have included a list of the movies that will be accessible online. All the teachers interested in these resources for their students are kindly asked to contact us at edu@animest.ro.
The films you may choose from
Fritzi: A Revolutionary Tale – Germany, Luxembourg, Belgium, The Czech Republic 2019, 80 min,
directed by Ralf Kukula and Matthias Bruhn
Short films:
Home / Otthon – Hungary 2020, 7 min 43 sec, directed by Kinga Rofusz
The Boy and the Kite / O Papagaio e a Pipa – Brazil 2021, 7 min, directed by Tiago Mal
Jabberwocky – The Netherlands 2020, 2 min 15 sec, directed by Sjaak Rood
Bulit Listens to Nature / Bulit escucha a la naturaleza – Spain 2021, 9 min, directed by Mikel Urmeneta and Juanjo Elordi
Greece Treasures – Latvia 2021, 10 min 48 sec, directed by Jānis Cimmermanis
How I Overcame My Fear of Humans / Comment j’ai vaincu ma peur des humains – France 2020, 9 min, directed by Hélène Ducrocq
The Girl Who Stood Still / A menina parada – Portugal 2021, 9 min 30 sec, directed by Joana Toste
Migrants – France 2020, 8 min 17 sec, directed by Hugo Caby, Antoine Dupriez, Aubin Kubiak, Lucas Lermytte, and Zoé Devise
Mila – USA 2020, 19 min 50 sec, directed by Cinzia Angelini
Monkey Domino / Affendomino – Germany 2021, 4 min 07 sec, directed by Ulf Grenzer
A Stone in the Shoe / Un caillou dans la chaussure – France 2020, 11 min 28 sec, directed by Eric Montchaud
Footsteps on the Wind – USA 2021, 7 min 05 sec, directed by Maya Sanbar, Gustavo Leal and Faga Melo
Shorts films from the „Wandering Kite” programme, a selection made by the CEE Animation Festival Network, of which Animest is a member, cofinanced through the European Union's grant Creative Europe MEDIA:
Koyaa – hârtia jucăușă / Koyaa – Elusive Paper –Slovenia 2019, 2 min 45 sec, directed Kolja Saksida
Domnul Noapte are zi liberă / Mr. Night Has a Day Off – Lituania 2016, 2 min, directed Ignas Meilunas
Zmeul / The Kite – Cehia/ Slovacia/ Polonia, 2019, 13 min 5 sec, directed Martin Smatana
Cioc-cioc / Knock Knock – Croația 2018, 3 min 56 sec, regia Ivana Guljašević
Mitch-Match: Episodul 6 / Mitch-Match: Episode 6 – Ungaria 2020, 2 min 12 sec, directed Géza M. Tóth
Norul / Cloudy – Cehia 2018, 4 min 44 sec, directed Filip Diviak, Zuzana Čupová
Prințul Ki-Ki-Do: vânătoarea Prince Ki-Ki-Do: On the Run – Slovenia 2018, 5 min, directed Grega Mastnak
All of the animated films above may be accessed online for free by educational institutions between 1 May and 20 June 2024. In order to start using the films and activities, please contact us at edu@animest.ro.