CINEMINI EUROPE

From a very young age, children are open to many different forms of art. Film, as an audiovisual medium, is particularly attractive and accessible for almost all children. Children not only enjoy moving image and easily engage with narrative films and documentaries, but also actively respond to abstract and experimental films, which give them a lot of room for imagination. How can we make film watching a meaningful experience? How and what can we teach children in a very early age about film and media, since the early years are the most formative? We try to answer these questions on a practical way in Cinemini Europe, a film education project with films, activities and teaching materials for children between 3-6 years old.All partners of the project, Austrian Film Museum (Austria), Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum, DFF (Germany), Eye Film museum (Netherlands, project manager), Kinodvor (Slovenia) and Taartrovers (Netherlands), recognise 3-6-year-olds as an important audience for film education.

Although different in approach and context, all partners have a shared view on the suitability of a variety of European, heritage-, experimental and art film to challenge the children to be creative with film. Every project partner has broad expertise, and each institution brought its individual know-how and “network” to the project, relating to film heritage, selection, screening, reflection, (inter)active workshops, development of a learning plan, training and dissemination. For two years the partners worked with each other and the target group itself to create a new cross-border film education approach. The aim of Cinemini Europe is to engage children from 3-6 yrs old in European film in varied forms to stimulate the development of creativity (by watching and making films) and critical thinking (reflection) and so to spark a love for film. To reach this goal we’ve worked towards a practical educational approach which can be used in many settings.All the content created within Cinemini Europe is gathered in the “Cinemini Europe kit”. This kit contains the following elements:- List of film selection criteria for 3-6 yrs (can be used as a guidance for adding films)- Film catalogue with 26 short films. – 4 prototypes of installations using all senses, with possible themes like shadow & light, moving images, story playing and watching. – Activity cards for children.- Videos, didactic and pedagogical blueprints for pedagogues and film educators.- Pilots with 9 groups and children from kindergartens, preschools or schools. An essential characteristic of this project is the pilots with children: all materials and films has already been tested in practice. Each partner developed, tested, researched and evaluated, together with several groups of children from kindergartens, preschools or schools, a part of the Cinemini Europe program. The programs carried out by each project partner included: film screenings, didactic and pedagogical blueprints, digital lesson materials / booklets and suggestions for activities at the location and at kindergartens / (pre)schools. The aim was to find a balanced mix of activities that involve playfulness, tactile sensation and fantasy while not being less cognitive. Pedagogues and film educators who want to use parts of CINEMINI can thus be assured that they have material at their disposition that already has successfully being used in groups of children aged three to six. The concept and content are accessible and replicable for local and international film and cultural organizations in Europe, see www.cinemini-europe.eu. So all children and pedagogues in Europe will have the opportunity to discover the diverse world of moving image in a meaningful and fun way.

Funded projects

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

Uncomfortable Beings, Azra, Best Imaginary Friends Forever

LINA - Learn, Interact, and Network in Architecture

Reactivating unused urban spaces through architecture and arts (ReCITYing)

Art Nouveau: a new EUtopia

Creative Industries Development Centre (KUL)

Web 3.0 Accelerator for Sustainable Cultural Tourism (Web3Tour)

Studiotopia: Enter the Symbiocene with Arts and Science (Studiotopia 2)

Bio Awakening - developing bio-art practices in Western Balkan

TestArt

GREENSTAGE

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Cultural BEES

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Story (MTaS)

Our Little Library: Through literary bridges to reading adventures (OLLLB)

Connected with Books (CWB)

Operation Nova

Moving Balkans

Exploring Expanded Publishing: EX-Pub

Thinking Publishing (ThinkPub)

Novel Europe (NovelEU)

REVIVE

Temporama: Mini Slate 2023

Studi Virc: Mini Slate 2023

The 10th and 11th edition of FeKK - Ljubljana Short Film Festival

The 20th and 21st Kino Otok - Isola Cinema International Film Festival

20. and 21. ANIMATEKA International animated film festival

Film in Hospital 2.0

EU Youth Cinema: Green Deal 2024-2026

Cinema without barriers (CWB)

Literary Agent Platform: Capacity building (LAP CB)

Tramal Films Mini Slate 22 (TFMini22)

Vertigo Slate 2022: Chestnuts, Memory of Autumn Mists, OHO, Splashing around

Staragara slate 22

Our Little Library: Literary exchanges

Testing Ground (TestG)

Better Live

Variola - Dark Spring TV series

SEMA

Paradiso

Leave the door open

The Big Green

The Long Way Down

New approaches for local media (NEWLOCAL)

Life Long Burning – Futures Lost and Found (LLB3)

Time For Live Art (LIVETIME)

Our Little Library: Literary Exchanges

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo. An interactive digital tool that brings kids closer to classical music (FF)

Spring Cleaning

Animation Festival Network

CulturalDeTour - Sustainable Cultural Tourism by Design Driven Innovation

Building the future of democracy through art, science and technology (EUDigitalDeal)

The Museum of the Commons. Towards a Healthier Arts Ecosystem (MoC)

ACT: Art, Climate, Transition

Baths, gothic churches and miners’ houses

Fake Lies

THE FILM CORNER RELOADED - A CULTURAL APPROACH

CINEMINI EUROPE

FC Freedom

Body

Movies in Motion

Voix de la Poesie Europeenne

Trust me, I'm an artist

The Faces Behind the Nose - Promoting Hospital Clowning as a Recognized Genre of Performing Arts

SYMBOLS - Culture of Death& Cultural Life: New audiences and creations around European Cemeteries!

SWICH - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage

SPECTRUM 14|15

Small Size, Performing Arts for Early Years

Performing the Museum

Masters & Servers: Networked Culture in the Post-Digital Age