Moving Cinema

Moving Cinema is a European project that started in September 2014. Our main objectives are to create strong links between young people and cinema, to give them the tools to be autonomous spectators, and ultimately, to build active and sensitive audiences able to appreciate diverse cinematographic manifestations. We focus on contemporary and classic European auteur cinema, with special attention to films and filmmakers that differ from the mainstream, and yet are able to engage young people in a deep and meaningful way.

The first step is to increase interest and improve knowledge of European cinema among young audiences. The second crucial step is to enable and to encourage them to access film exhibition spaces and VoD autonomously; so that they maintain bonds with European films independently. We work mostly with young people aged from 12 to 19, combining work within the school framework (in a cross-curricular approach) and the outside school.

The project was launched in 2014 thanks to the support of the MEDIA Creative Europe. More than 32.000 young people, 50 organizations, 120 filmmakers, 1.350 teachers and 220 schools have got involved in the project.

In its five years, Moving Cinema explored five strands of work: (1) attendance at festivals and screenings; (2) young film programmers; (3) filming with mobile devices been inspired by great European filmmakers; (4) access to films on video on demand (VOD) platforms; and (5) Inside Cinema, an online platform that documents and provides valuable materials for anyone interested in the creative process of films such as The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959), Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) and Estiu 1993 (Carla Simón, 2017).

The project strands and activities are being constantly reviewed, evaluated, expanded and updated in order to generate strategies, proposals and methodologies of film education that could be transferred to various cultural and social contexts. The resources created by the project are available at our website and accessible to people, groups and institutions interested in film education all over the world. We have also designed and implemented training programs, both in the countries of the partner organizations and in other European countries. Through the activities, Moving Cinema has been weaving together an important network of festivals, cinema venues and exhibition spaces, education centers and institutions in order to promote and develop the field of film education for young people in Europe.

Moving Cinema is led since 2014 by A Bao A Qu and currently developed together with Meno Avilys (Lithuania, since 2014), Kijufi (Germany, since 2016), Otok Institut (Slovenia, since 2018) and BelDocs (Serbia, since 2020). Os Filhos de Lumière (Portugal), the Centre for the Moving Image (Scotland), the BFI – British Film Institute (Great Britain) and the Cinémathèque Française (France) have also been involved in the project.

Moving Cinema

(Partner) Moving Cinema is a European project that started in September 2014. Our main objectives are to create strong links between young people and cinema, to give them the tools to be autonomous spectators, and ultimately, to build active and sensitive audiences able to appreciate diverse cinematographic manifestations. We focus on contemporary and classic European auteur cinema, with special attention to films and filmmakers that differ from the mainstream, and yet are able to engage young people in a deep and meaningful way. The first step is to increase interest and improve knowledge of European cinema among young audiences. The second crucial step is to enable and to encourage them to access film exhibition spaces and VoD autonomously; so that they maintain bonds with European films independently. We work mostly with young people aged from 12 to 19, combining work within the school framework (in a cross-curricular approach) and the outside school. The project was launched in 2014 thanks to the support of the MEDIA Creative Europe. More than 32.000 young people, 50 organizations, 120 filmmakers, 1.350 teachers and 220 schools have got involved in the project. In its five years, Moving Cinema explored five strands of work: (1) attendance at festivals and screenings; (2) young film programmers; (3) filming with mobile devices been inspired by great European filmmakers; (4) access to films on video on demand (VOD) platforms; and (5) Inside Cinema, an online platform that documents and provides valuable materials for anyone interested in the creative process of films such as The 400 Blows (François Truffaut, 1959), Pierrot le fou (Jean-Luc Godard, 1965) and Estiu 1993 (Carla Simón, 2017). The project strands and activities are being constantly reviewed, evaluated, expanded and updated in order to generate strategies, proposals and methodologies of film education that could be transferred to various cultural and social contexts. The resources created by the project are available at our website and accessible to people, groups and institutions interested in film education all over the world. We have also designed and implemented training programs, both in the countries of the partner organizations and in other European countries. Through the activities, Moving Cinema has been weaving together an important network of festivals, cinema venues and exhibition spaces, education centers and institutions in order to promote and develop the field of film education for young people in Europe. Moving Cinema is led since 2014 by A Bao A Qu and currently developed together with Meno Avilys (Lithuania, since 2014), Kijufi (Germany, since 2016), Otok Institut (Slovenia, since 2018) and BelDocs (Serbia, since 2020). Os Filhos de Lumière (Portugal), the Centre for the Moving Image (Scotland), the BFI – British Film Institute (Great Britain) and the Cinémathèque Française (France) have also been involved in the project.

Foreign producers in the supported project

A Bao A Qu (leader)

Spain (EU)
Meno Avilys (partner)

Lithuania (EU)
Kijufi (partner)

Germany (EU)
BelDocs (partner)

Republic of Serbia

Funded projects

MUSICVILLE – Green European Opera

Operation Nova

Kino x Games

FASIH - Future Art and Science Industrial Heritage

Cultural BEES

Is this us?

Climate Art Fusion Caravane (CARAVANE)

Moving Balkans

Youth Art for the Earth (YAFE)

Shadow Pandemic: Hidden Voices

Open House Europe (OHEu)

Third Stage

VERSOPOLIS – WHERE POETRY LIVES

December: 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

Connecting Emerging Literary Artists (CELA)

Transmedia stories of insularity (TRAST)

Female Digital Creativity (FLUX)

Planet Hope (New European Fiction) (PH)

More than a Book (MTaS)

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

Connected with Books (CWB)

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 (OLL LE)

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)

Women Power in Comics (WOMCOM)

Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience (MODINA)

Fortissimo (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)

CEE Animation Forum 2021

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!