Annual Report 2023 Entire Book - Flipbook - Page 132
#ThinkLanguages at the Movies
As part of a new partnership with the Irish Film Institute, a selection of foreign language films was shown at
the IFI in Dublin and their cinema network nationwide during #ThinkLanguages Week, giving students the
opportunity to experience languages at the movies. In addition to in-cinema screenings, schools had the
opportunity to avail of their streaming platform IFI@Schools which offers schools the opportunity to screen
films directly in the classroom. Over 3,000 students watched one of the foreign language films in the cinema
during #ThinkLanguages Week, with approximately a thousand more accessing a film in the classroom.
Movies screened during #ThinkLanguages Week included:
• Sixteen/16 ans –
Leaving Cert French
• The Little Gang/La Petite Bande Junior Cert French
• Run Lola Run/Lola Rennt –
Leaving Cert German (25th Anniversary)
• Too Far Away/Zu Weit Weg –
Junior Cert German
• Schoolgirls/Las Ninas –
Leaving Cert Spanish
• One for All/Uno para todos –
Junior Cert Spanish
• A fun ‘mystery’ film Korean film called Broker
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