OUR PLANET FESTIVAL
Our Planet Festival 2021 celebrates the multilingual lives of children and young people through the bi- and multi- lingual digital stories they have created during the pandemic. Educators have been working with young participants (6 – 17 years old) across 18 educational institutions (primary, secondary, community-based complementary, pupil referral unit, NGO) and 7 countries (England, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, Germany, Taiwan, Turkey) and a range of languages. The 3–5-minute films are connected through the theme of ‘Our Planet’ as young people tell their stories across the world. There will be short, pre-recorded introductions to each film.
All the films from the Our Planet Festival will be accessible on DC@Home from 11 June, 2021 – 23 July, 2021 (and showcased on the Critical Connections website).
Our Planet Festival is holding an online screening event for schools, family and friends on Friday 11 June (1.00 – 4.00 pm).
A film programme with information about the project and all of the films can be found here.
Film Programme*
*all films contain English subtitles or English voice-over
1. Europa School UK (primary), Toi, Moi, Tree, 2021. [French] [00:00:10]
2. Tainan Municipal Changsing Elementary School, Revealing the Secrets of Joss Paper, 2021. [Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese] [00:05:58]
3. Tawasol Community School Egypt, Congratulations you have won a sheep!, 2021. [Arabic] [00:16:17]
4. Saint Jérôme CofE UK, Plagued by Plastic, 2021. [French, German, Arabic] [00:20:18]
5. Croatian Supplementary School UK, Planet Earth Planet Zemlja, 2021. [Croatian] [00:31:41]
6. Fengshan Senior High School Taiwan, A Tree’s Words, [Mandarin Chinese, Taiwanese] [00:39:00]
7. Kamares Primary School Cyprus, Waking up from a Nightmare, 2021. [Standard Modern Greek] [00:42:31]
8. Europa School UK (secondary), Green Planet Dreamers, 2021. [French, German, Spanish] [00:47:36]
9. Alwan and Awtar Association Egypt, Mehneshy, 2021. [Arabic] [00:57:54]
10. Safir International School Turkey, Breeze - نسمات [Arabic] [01:01:10]
11. Evangelische Grundschule Halle Germany, Little Red Hen Travels the World, 2021. [Polish, Chinese Mandarin, Romanian, German, Russian] [01:08:22]
12. EIFA International School, Notre Planete / Our Planet, 2021. [Spanish, Italian, Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, French] [01:15:50]
13. Seaford Head School UK, I’m not the first to speak up, 2021. [French] [01:21:03]
14. Seaford Head School UK, We must stop it, 2021. [French] [01:26:23]
15. Taipei Zhongshan Girls High School Taiwan, Have You Ever Dreamed About A War?, 2021. [Mandarin Chinese] [01:32:35]
16. Beachcroft AP Academy (primary) UK, How can we make the world a better place?, 2021. [Persian, Portuguese] [01:42:39]
17. Beachcroft AP Academy (secondary) UK, Look What We’ve Done, 2021. [Kurdish, Arabic, Chaldean, French, Somali, Filipino (Tagalog)] [01:45:32]
18. Taipei Zhongshan Girls High School Taiwan, Alien’s Journey, 2021. [Mandarin Chinese] [01:51:53]
19. Peace School 1 UK, Pollution, 2021. [Arabic] [01:58:45]
20. Peace School 2 UK, Our Planet through Art, 2021. [Arabic] [02:03:07]
Our Planet Festival is directed by Dr Jim Anderson, Dr Yu-Chiao Chung and Dr Vicky Macleroy, Centre for Language, Culture and Learning, Goldsmiths, University of London
This online screening is supported by Goldsmiths Public Engagement Fund (2020-21) and Deptford Cinema.