As part of the International Film Festival, there will be separate school screenings on Thursday, 30.01.25 and Friday, 31.01.25 at Central im Bürgerbräu. In cooperation with the Central Kino, the International Film Festival will offer screenings for all age groups on both days and two additional film workshops on Friday.

Ticket prices

The contribution towards expenses is € 4,- per pupil (accompanying persons are free)

Information letter

The complete program, registration instructions and further information on the events can be found here: Information letter (PDF – german only)

Registration

You will find all information on registration in the information letter (PDF – german only).

Workshops

In addition to the school screenings, the International Film Festival Wuerzburg 2025 offers two exclusive film seminars for school classes. Thanks to the cooperation with the educational program DOK.education of the Munich International Documentary Film Festival, your students will take part in a 90-minute workshop and watch an award-winning and age-appropriate short film on the big screen. While still in the movie theater, the students work in groups and under the guidance of film expert Maya Reichert on specific viewing tasks relating to the topic and style of the film. Children, teenagers and young adults are thus playfully enabled to decode the language of film and to deal critically with audiovisual media.

With the workshops ‘School of Seeing’ and an extensive year-round program of teacher training, online workshops and film projects, DOK.education reaches over 8000 pupils throughout Bavaria every year. At our festival, you can take the opportunity to attend the face-to-face events in Wuerzburg.

Filmmaker workshop: School of Seeing

Film for elementary school (3rd/4th grade)
Date: Friday, January 31, 2025
Start: 09:00 am
Duration: 90 min
Location: Central Kino 3

Short film FREDDY TAUCHT NACH GEISTERNETZEN
(Topics: Environmental protection, garbage collection, underwater adventure, film analysis, media competence)

Movie for the upper school
Date: Friday, January 31, 2025
Start: 11:00 am
Duration: 90 min
Location: Central Cinema 3

Short film ALLES GEHÖRT ZU DIR
(Topics: 3rd generation, migration, prejudice, self-esteem, diversity, personal development, film analysis, media literacy)

All information on the workshops can be found in the information letter (PDF – german only).

Use the School of Seeing online

The movie screenings are fully booked? You can’t come to the International Film Festival with your class? With the Online Cinema Halls you can bring DOK.education‘s School of Seeing into the classroom – at the same time as the festival week. In the free online cinema room, your school class will meet real filmmakers in recorded interviews and watch an age-appropriate short film under guidance. Accompanying material including solutions ensures sustainable preparation.

Information: https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/SchuleDesSehens2024_Online?lang=en

DOK.education, the educational program of DOK.fest Munich, sees itself as a “school of seeing” that combines media competence and cultural education. The aim is to convey the various media levels of truth and reality using the example of the documentary film narrative and to develop an initial understanding of the readability of artistic film narratives. The artistic narrative documentary film is particularly suitable for the acquisition of media competence, as it tells real stories in a dramaturgically designed form and cinematic images. DOK.education shows your students documentary films that tell stories from the lives of young people at eye level and with an artistic approach.

Website: https://www.dokfest-muenchen.de/DOK_education?lang=en