Popoli for Kids and Teens
Popoli for Kids and Teens, the Festival dei Popoli's initiative dedicated to documentary and animation films for young audiences, features films related to current affairs, educational workshops, meetings with directors and special events for schools.
The selected documentaries and animated shorts tell life stories of children and adolescents and have a high educational value, both from the point of view of a first literacy to the cinematographic language and with respect to the themes tackled, which contemplate the sustainable development objectives defined in the UN 2030 Agenda, including: inclusion, recognition of diversity and the fight against all forms of marginalisation and discrimination, activism, youth and women's rights, anti-discrimination, inclusion, climate and migration emergency, racism.
The film proposal is complemented by workshops for different age groups, matinees for schools, meetings with directors, events for the whole family, a jury of girls and boys (Young Jury Day).
The Festival dei Popoli, with its ‘Popoli for Kids and Teens’ programme, is part of the Docs4Teens - Building Bridges network together with the FIPADOC festival (France), the Krakow Film Festival (Poland), Docudays UA (Ukraine) and Porto Post Doc (Portugal) with which it shares the objective of promoting the documentary genre among young people and the circulation of films dedicated to young audiences throughout Europe.
Registration open for “Popoli for Kids & Teens” section
Applications are now open for the selection of documentary and short animated films suitable for young audiences that will be part of the “Popoli for Kids & Teens” section of the 66th Festival dei Popoli.
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Popoli for Kids and Teens 2024
The Festival dei Popoli’s documentary selection aimed at children and young viewers, with workshops and activities for schools.
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The fourth edition of Docs4Teens is underway
An international project, five European festivals, and as many as fourteen outstanding for young audiences. 2025 edition of Docs4Teens get started!
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Workshops for children: learning to read and make films
The film proposal of the Popoli for Kids and Teens section is complemented by workshops for different age groups, matinees for schools, meetings with directors, and events for the whole family.
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Call Young Jury Day – 65° Festival dei Popoli
Are you between 14 and 18 years old and want to be part of a documentary film jury? Join Young Jury Day to vote for the winner of the Peoples for Kids and Teens section of the 65 Festival dei Popoli! Sunday, November 3 from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Astra Cinema.
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Fipadoc Campus 2024
In January 2024, on the occasion of Fipadoc – International Documentary Festival in Biarritz (France) the Fipadoc Campus renewed its commitment to screening documentary films to secondary and high school students
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Registration open for “Popoli for Kids & Teens” section
Applications are now open for the selection of documentary and short animated films suitable for young audiences that will be part of the “Popoli for Kids & Teens” section of the 65th Festival dei Popoli
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Kids and Teens for schools
Meetings, screenings and workshops in the ‘Popoli for Kids and Teens’ section for primary and secondary schools.
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Kids and Teens workshops and meetings
The film programming of the Popoli for Kids and Teens section is supplemented and consolidated by meetings and workshops specifically designed by local project partners to cater for various age groups.
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Call Young Jury Day – 64° Festival dei Popoli
Are you between 14 and 18 years old and want to be part of a documentary film jury? Join Young Jury Day to vote for the winner of the Popoli for Kids and Teens section of the 64th Festival dei Popoli! Sunday, November 5 from 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Astra Cinema.
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Progetto DIVE – Diversity in Visual-Essays
The DIVE Project – Diversity in Visual-Essays, a pathway for students of all grades to theoretical and technical training on the audiovisual language of documentary cinema.
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Docs4Teens – Building Bridges
Festival dei Popoli together with Krakow International Film Festival (Poland), Docudays UA (Ukraine) FIPADOC (France) has created the label ‘Docs4Teens – Building Bridges’, a selection of the 9 best documentaries for children aged 12 to 16 presented in the last years within their respective festivals.
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