FILM SCREENINGS FOR SCHOOLS IN PRAGUE
Hello, G’day, Kia ora!
Autumn 2025 will bring another round of film screenings for schools. They will take place at Lucerna cinema in November. We’ll be screening:
- for the second-level of primary school and secondary school students – a documentary Blue, Austrália, 2017, 76 min.
- for students in the first level of primary schools (3./4. grade) The Mountain, New Zealand, 2024, 89 min.
Thursday, 6 November – Blue
Friday, 7 November – The Mountain
Monday, 24 November – Blue
Tuesday, 25 November – The Mountain
Wednesday, 26 November – Blue
We always begin at 9:30am, first 30 minutes will be dedicated to a short introduction to the movie. We provide materials on the film for teachers at the screening.
The ticket price for all screenings is 110 CZK per student with free entry for all teachers. Reserve your seats now at z.stiborkova@gmail.com or at +420 775 210 129, and of course, feel free to contact us with any queries you might have.
Information on school screenings:
We’d like to invite you and your students to Lucerna cinema to see Australian and New Zealand films. We are the only English-speaking country festival in the Czech Republic that screens movies in English. We believe that exposure to varied audiovisual content and art forms during childhood and adolescence stimulates creativity and the ability to express oneself culturally. By presenting quality movie masterpieces with an international standing to students, they have the chance to experience a high standard of work in English and to improve their ability to evaluate different forms of cultural expression.
We collaborate with the Association of Teachers of English of the Czech Republic and the Association of Language Schools.
We see audiovisual art as a progressive means of multimedia education and a tool for developing the minds of young viewers. Seeing a movie at the cinema can be an attractive accompaniment to in-class English language teaching or for that matter, to classes of biology, culture, history, ecology, social science, sociology, geography, or many others.
Since 2020, together with Prague’s Lucerna cinema we have organised screenings and talks for students of primary and secondary schools. The movies are screened in English with Czech subtitles and we carefully select the films on the basis of the topics they cover, with a view to them forming part of classroom discussion after.
Past screenings:
2024
Screenings of the film Sweet As (Australia, 2022).
2023
Screenings of the film Blueback (Australia 2022).
2022
Screenings of Storm Boy (Australia 2019).
We provided schools with teaching materials for the screenings which could also be used in a variety of school subjects where English is the language of instruction.
2020 and 2021
In collaboration with Prague Zoo, we arranged talks on the endangered and endemic species of Australia. The zoo’s Tasmanian devil keeper David Vala first talked to the students about the animals that visitors can see inside the zoo’s Darwin crater (budgerigars, kangaroos, echidnas, potoroos), before moving on to the four Tasmanian devils. In addition to his experiences as a keeper, he talked about facial cancer, which has greatly reduced the Tasmanian devil population in the wild in Tasmania, as well as the efforts made and methods used in Australia and Tasmania to save the animals (breeding stations, the Maria Island settlement, research into the disease and development of a cure for it and education).
The screenings and talks are held at Lucerna cinema (Vodičkova 704/36, Prague 1).
The coordinator of the festival’s school screenings is: Zuzana Stiborková
Contact e-mail: z.stiborkova@gmail.com