The European Film Factory (EFF) is a film education platform. Their website, accessible on all digital devices, is for students aged 11 to 18 and for all European teachers. Since August 26th educational guides in German, English, Spanish, French, Greek, Italian, Polish and even Romanian have been put online so that Internet users can discover and deepen their knowledge of films which have marked the history of European cinema.
The EFF wants to help people understand the importance of film education and discover the diversity and richness of European cinema. Registration is free for all citizens of Creative Europe (the list is available here).
The European Film Factory is a European project financed by MEDIA (Creative Europe) and the Institut français. It was created in partnership with ARTE Education and European Schoolnet.
There are ten films on offer, eight of them features: La Strada by Federico Fellini (Italy, 1954), Stella by Michael Cacoyannis (Greece, 1955), Les Quatre cents Coups by François Truffaut (France, 1959), A Swedish Love Story by Roy Andersson (Sweden, 1970), Europa Europa by Agnieszka Holland (France, Poland, Germany, 1990), Billy Elliot by Stephen Daldry (Great Britain, France, 2000), Good Bye Lenin by Wolfgang Becker (Germany, 2003), and 12:08 East of Bucharest by Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania, 2006).
One of the other two films is animated: The Secret of Kells by Tomm Moore and Nora Twomey (Ireland, France, Belgium, 2008), the other a documentary: En Tierra Extraña, by Iciar Bollain (Spain, 2014).
Sources :
https://www.europeanfilmfactory.eu/
https://www.ots.at
https://www.pro.institutfrancais.com
