Since 2004 more than 7000 high school students attended Verzio’s free morning screenings. The sessions are completed with discussions between a professional moderator and the participants.
Due to the growing interest of teachers and students, in 2017 Verzio launched a year-round program to bring creative documentary films to the classrooms.
Student Verzio films cover a variety of topics and help developing visual literacy skills and human rights awareness. Along with moderating discussions after each screening, Verzio developed special toolkits for teachers to provide additional context, questions for film analysis, related activities, readings, and other tips for further discussion.
Schools can now choose from the following films/topics:
Sonita (Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami, Switzerland – Iran – Germany, 2015, 91 min)
#islam #Iran & Afghanistan #women’s rights #forced marriage #refugee #documentary filmmaker #participatory documentary #filmmaking ethics
Punk Syndrome (Jukka Kärkkäinen – Jani-Petteri Passi, Finland, 2012, 85 min)
#punk #media #living with disability #film impact on the protagonists #integration
Our School (Mona Nicoara, Romania – Switzerland – USA, 2011, 90 min)
#Roma segregation vs integration #educational policies #childhood #identity politics #EU #structural poverty #social predjudices #shooting a creative documentary #filming children in documentary cinema
Thule Tuvalu (Matthias von Gunten, Switzerland – Tuvalu – Greenland, 2014, 51 min)
#global warming #indigenous society #cultural antropology #mass production vs self-sufficiency # environmental challenges #observation in a documentary
Tititá (Tamás Almási, Hungary, 2015, 90 min)
#talent development #profession #growing up #music #Roma integration #relationship of the filmmaker and protagonist #observational cinema
#doinggood (Loeke de Waal & Steffi Posthumus, Netherlands, 2016, 59 min)
#volunteering #voluntourism #poverty #child povery #segregation #Africa&Europe #colonization #objectivity in documentaries
The Wait (Emil Langballe, Denmark, 2016, 58 min)
#asylum policies #bureaucracy #war zones #EU #integration #multiculturalism #family roles #women roles #diversity of Islam in different countries #fundamentalism #psychological illnesses #documentary as edited reality #methodology of documentaries #observational documentary
We invite high schools from all over Hungary interested in screening one or more films on their premises to write to
Szabolcs Szirony, Student Program coordinator - in order to get more information or organize a screening.