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EUDEC 2008 Leipzig
Leslie Ocker
Paul-Gruner-Str. 33
04107 Leipzig/Germany

Phone: +49-341-9261877
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Schooled

www.schooledthefilm.com

Tuesday 29 July + Wednesday 30 July / 8pm
Thursday 31 July / 9:45pm

What happened to the person you were going to be? Written and directed by Brooks Elms, USA 2007, mit Alysia Reiner, Daniel Kucan, Jack Sway, 100 min, English

SCHOOLED reveals the transformation of an intense high school teacher (Daniel Kucan) as he discovers a rebellious alternative school and learns to connect with kids as people. Two-time nominee at The Method Film Fest in LA (including Best Ensemble Performance) SCHOOLED also stars Alysia Reiner (SIDEWAYS), was co-edited by Frederick Marx (HOOP DREAMS), and features a haunting score by Andrew Hollander (WAITRESS). Written and directed by maverick newcomer Brooks Elms, SCHOOLED stormed education conferences around the globe including: New York, San Francisco, Dallas, and Sydney, Australia. SCHOOLED challenges fundamental ideas about children's empowerment, like no fiction film you've ever seen.

"I'm thrilled to see, for perhaps the first time in fiction, the portrayal of humane treatment of children."
-David Schneider-Joseph, former Sudbury Valley student and staff of Mountain Laurel Sudbury School.

"Unlike many of the 'teacher as hero' films (Dead Poets) or 'anti-hero' (Half Nelson), 'Schooled' takes the audience to the heart of a teacher's beliefs."
-Dr. Ken Alexander, Senior Lecturer, School of Education, Edith Cowan University, Western Australia

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Kinder!

www.archiv-der-zukunft.de

Thursday 31 July, 8pm
Friday 1 August, 9.45pm

Reinhard Kahl, Germany 2008, Documentary, 83 min, German

The main characters are children, aged 0 to 10. The film takes a close look at the natural curiosity of children. Reinhard Kahl and his team spent more than two years observing and documenting children in nature, nursery schools, schools and research centres.

A "nature documentary about humans"? What do humans need that other animals do not: culture. The film shows the development of "cultural intelligence", for example in the "Lernwerkstatt Natur", a nature camp for nursery school children in Mülheim an der Ruhr, as well as in Daniel Barenboim’s Musikkindergarten Berlin and in the Swiss Primaria, which integrate kindergarten and school.

"Actually, every child needs three things," says the German neurobiologist Prof. Gerald Hüther: "She needs achievable challenges and task through which she can grow, she needs role models as an orientation and she needs a community of people in which she feels safe and cared for."

Enlightening, surprising and fascinating interviews and observations on early childhood learning.

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