Primary Modern Foreign Languages
We have curated a selection of foreign language films to support and enhance your primary school syllabuses. There are free teaching resources available for many of these films to help support your classroom work pre/post visit, and you can also request extra time in the screen to lead a discussion with your classes (please ask at the time of booking).
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Films are available to book for private hires weekday mornings (subject to availability with a start time of 10:00 or 10:30).
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1 Staff:10 Students ratio).
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French Key Stage 1 / P1-3
Great for exploring these topics: Cultures & Places and Stories, Poems & Songs
Ernest and Célestine (U)
Director: Stéphane Aubier. France. 2012. 77 mins.
Every night, the boarding school Headmistress tells Célestine and the other little mice horrible stories about the bears that live in the cities above them. But Célestine's curiosity is greater than her fear and she ventures above ground and meets Ernest, who at first believes what he has been told about how awful mice are... A beautiful animation about overcoming fear and hate.
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Subjects: French (available in French with English subtitles)
Resources: Free teaching resource from the BFI
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Kirikou and the Sorceress (U)
Director: Michel Ocelot. France. 1998. 70 mins.
Kirikou is a very unusual boy - from the moment he was born he could walk and talk, and is very wise and brave. When the sorceress Karaba threatens to eat all the men from Kirikou's village, he decides he needs to outwit her rather than fight her...Drawn from elements of West African folktales and with a gorgeous soundtrack, this is a stunning animated adventure story.
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Subjects: French (available in French with English subtitles or in English)
Resources: Free teaching resource from Film Education
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Kirikou and the Men and Women (U)
Director: Michel Ocelot. France. 2012. 87 mins.
Join Kirikou, the beloved feisty young boy with a big heart, as he helps to save his fellow villagers from a whole host of crazy mishaps. Told through the eyes of Kirikou’s grandfather, The Wise Man who lives in the Forbidden Mountain, the stories mix mythology, fable, humour and wit to tell tales of courage and learning the ways of the world.
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Subjects: French (available in French with English subtitles)
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
French Key Stage 2 / P4-7
Great for exploring these topics: Families, Our World, Culture
Zarafa (PG)
Director: Rémi Bezançon, Jean-Christophe Lie. France, Belgium. 2012. 77 mins.
10-year-old Maki, escapes from slavery and befriends a baby giraffe called Zarafa. When Hassan, Prince of the Desert, is instructed to deliver Zarafa to France as a gift to the King, Maki will do everything in his power to stop Hassan – even if it means risking his own life – to fulfill his promise to Zarafa’s late mother to protect him. Their journey takes them through Alexandria, Marseilles, and the snow-capped Alps, with many adventures along the way.
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Subjects: French (available in English with French subtitles, in French with English subtitles, or in French with French subtitles) Resources: Free teaching resource from Discovery Film Festival
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Belle and Sebastien (PG)
Director: Nicolas Vanier. France. 2013. 104 mins.
Belle and Sebastien is based on a novel by Cécile Aubry about a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Great Pyrenees, who live in a village in the French Alps close to the Italian border. Together they try to foil a Nazi plan to capture French resistance fighters.
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Subjects: French (available in French with English subtitles)
Resources: Free teaching resource from Into Film
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Le Petit Nicolas (PG)
Director: Laurent Tirard. France, Belgium. 2009. 89 mins.
When Nicolas overhears his parents talking about a new arrival, he knows it can only mean one thing – a baby! Convinced they are making plans to abandon him in the forest to make room for his sibling he enlists the help of his fellow classmates to make sure he will survive. Offering a wonderful child’s eye view of the world, this Gallic style Diary of a Wimpy Kid is based on the best-selling French series of books about school boy Nicolas.
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Subjects: French (available in French with English subtitles)
Resources: Free teaching resource from Film Education
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Phantom Boy (PG)
Director: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol. France. 2016. 83 mins.
As a side effect of his illness, Leo is able to transform into a phantom, and leave the confines of his body which is stuck in hospital, and explore the city as a ghostly apparition. While in the hospital he befriends a New York City cop who has been injured while attempting to capture a gangster causing chaos across the city. They form an extraordinary duo, using Leo’s phantom powers and Alex’s detective work to foil the plot and save New York from destruction.
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Subjects: French (can be screened in English or in French with English subtitles)
Resources: Free teaching resource from Into Film
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Tales of the Night (PG)
Director: Michel Ocelot. France. 2010. 84 mins.
Every night, a girl, a boy and an elderly technician meet in a little cinema that seems abandoned, but is in fact full of wonders. The three friends research, draw, invent, dress up and act out stories in a magical night where anything is possible. From enchanted forests to cities of gold populated by sorcerers, fairies and werewolves there is a tale for everyone and a visual delight for all.
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Subjects: French (available in English with French subtitles, in French with English subtitles, or in French with French subtitles)
Resources: Free teaching resource from Film Education
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
A Cat in Paris (PG)
Director: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol. France. 2011. 65 mins.
By day, Dino the cat lives with a little Parisian girl called Zoe, whose mother
is a police officer. By night, he works with Nico, a jewellery thief with a big heart. When Dino gives
Zoe a present of a diamond bracelet, it's not long before the police get suspicious. Trying to protect Dino, Zoe follows him and unwittingly stumbles on a team of gangsters who have a big robbery in mind, and soon Zoe, Dino and Nico are in a race against time to unravel a thrilling mystery.
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Subjects: French (available in English with French subtitles, in French with English subtitles, or in French with French subtitles) Resources: Free teaching resource from Into Film
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).
Spanish Key Stage 2 / P4-7
Great for exploring these topics: Activities & Hobbies and Stories, Poems & Songs
Zip & Zap and the Marble Gang (U)
Director: Oskar Santos. Spain. 2013. 106 mins.
Troublesome twins Zip & Zap are sent to summer school at Hope, a strict re-education centre ran by Falconetti, who forbids all forms of fun. They form the Marble Gang, the children’s Resistance, in order to defy the evil headmaster. Guided by intelligence, bravery and unbreakable faith in friendship, they uncover a mysterious secret hidden deep within the school and end up having the most exciting adventure of their lives. Based on the popular series of Spanish children's books.
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Subjects: Spanish (available in Spanish with English subtitles)
Resources: Free teaching resource from The Discovery Film Festival
Price: £4.00 per student (min 65 students) or flat £260 for smaller groups. Free for staff (1:10 ratio).