from CP to Terminale, students make incredible films rewarded at the Porquerolles Ecological Film Festival

The fourth edition of the Porquerolles Film Festival presented last weekend its Ecotubeurs-Ecotubeuses Prize, which rewards films made with the partnership of the Ministry of Culture, on ecological and environmental subjects. Three films shared the Grand Prize, the Jury Prize and a Special Mention. That is to say if the quality was there. Three beautiful surprises, short, but surprisingly creative.

Seed of filmmakers

If the teachers are behind their students in the realization from the writing, and at each stage, we feel the students in charge. What inventiveness, even what professionalism, in these three films which, by chance, are all animated. The Grand Prize went to let the whale, a magnificent nursery rhyme sung in chorus by the children on the animation of paper cut-outs by “pieces of cabbage” of five years, wonderful. The jury prize, Irreversible, is a sci-fi dystopia around plastic reminiscent of David Cronenberg, directed by high school students. Finally, Elsa’s eyesputs Aragon’s poem into images, with papers and other materials cut, broken, pounded, with a very elaborate soundtrack.

There is really the seed of filmmakers in these three polished pearls for a year, as an educational project on cinema, offered to all schools in France and Navarre. The 7th art is the most heterogeneous of all the arts. It combines both creativity and technique. It takes a lot of different disciplines coming together to make a film. The Ecotubeurs and Ecotubeuses, sponsored by Gérard Jugnot, raise awareness of both the pleasure of cinema and that of doing it, with perhaps the birth of vocations.

Movies

Grand Prize: let the whale by the Preparatory course of the Primary School Léon Say CP/CE1 of Nantes. The film raises awareness about the protection of cetaceans. The continuity between the rhythm of the song and the jerky animation of the cut-out papers translates the childish imagination, where we find our own childhood.

Jury Prize: Irreversible, by the students of the Lycée Senez d’Henin Beaumont takes as its subject the proliferation of plastic on Earth, to the point of making it a sixth continent. It is rather the ingestion of plastic microparticles by the body that the high school students dealt with, with breathtaking visual dexterity.

A Special Mention was awarded to the Eyes of Elsa directed by the 4th A class of the College Les Montagnes du Matin de Panissières. Cut-out papers, colorings, cotton, ears of wheat and broken glasses come alive in a cosmic vision and love on a sophisticated soundtrack.