Film canon

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The film canon of the Federal Agency for Civic Education (bpb) was drawn up by a commission of experts with the aim of improving the teaching of film skills in schools. 33 feature films and two documentaries were selected.

background

Against the background of the rather subordinate treatment of the art form film in school lessons in Germany - for example compared to France - the bpb decided in 2003 to develop the canon .

"Although the moving image is the leading medium of the 20th century, it still does not find the meaning it deserves in schools in contrast to literature"

- Thomas Krüger : President of the bpb 

The film canon is intended as an exemplary offer to enable the discussion of the subject of film in schools. The bpb has developed accompanying film booklets for all films. The selection of films in the film canon is supplemented by film booklets that have been published on current films.

The 35 films come from a period of around eighty years: at least three films were selected from every decade since the 1920s . With 13 titles, American films make up more than a third of the canon. Germany (7), France (5) and Italy (3) are the main representatives of Europe. Thematically, the canon ranges from children's films to comedy and science fiction , with a few representatives from documentary and avant-garde films , two musicals , a western and an animated film supplementing the list , which consists mainly of feature films . The majority of the films can be attributed to the auteur film . It is only a strictly limited selection, so a number of well-known directors are not represented (e.g. Ingmar Bergman , Jean Renoir and Yasujiro Ozu ).

The commission consisted of Andreas Dresen , Dominik Graf , Erika Gregor , Alfred Holighaus , Thomas Koebner , Eva Matlok , Katja Nicodemus , Christian Petzold , Hans Helmut Prinzler , Uschi Reich , Rainer Rother , Volker Schlöndorff , Reinhold T. Schöffel , Ruth Toma , Tom Tykwer , Andres Veiel , Burkhard Voiges and Horst Walther .

Access to the movies

One of the basic ideas of the selection committee was that the aforementioned films should also be shown in cinemas , for example as part of special student screenings. However, not all selected works are available as cinema copies yet.

Some communal cinemas offer the films in this form, some supplement the screenings for schoolchildren with special events for teacher training (other communal cinemas show a self-selected counter-canon).

List of films

Children's film canon

The Federal Association of Youth and Film and the specialist magazine Kinder- und Jugendfilm-Korrespondenz have created a children's film canon especially for children between 6 and 12 years based on the bpb's film canon and interviewing experts. It consists of 14 films, five of which are also included in the bpb film canon:

See also

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  1. ^ Filmkanon , Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on January 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ Members of the Commission , Federal Agency for Civic Education, accessed on January 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ Supplement the school film canon with films for children! , Federal Association of Youth and Film , accessed on January 19, 2013.

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