Education

• Ice Age

Focused on a mythical disaster, glaciation, this film shows how thousands of beings are forced to migrate from their home territory, searching for shelter in safer lands.

Selection of four film scenes and didactic lessons on response strategies to intervene with displaced population. Material prepared by Juan Jorge Michel Fariña (UBA) with the collaboration of Zelde Espinel and James Schultz (University of Miami), based on the original text by Ignacio Lewkowicz and Cristina Corea (UBA).

Source: IBIS Intervention in Disasters (English version, 2003-2006)

• Before the rain

The film focuses on the Balkans conflict. It describes the confrontation of two sibling villages divided by a new frontier policy.

Selection of 2 film scenes with comments and didactic exercises. Material prepared by Eduardo Laso (UBA), with the collaboration of Juan Jorge Michel Fariña (UBA).

Source: IBIS Intervention in Disasters (English version, 2003-2006)

Teacher’s Guideline, prepared by the Universidad de Huelva, Spain.

Source: http://www.edualter.org/material/pau/antese.htm

• The Terminal

(Steven Spielberg, 2004)

Based on a real case, the film tells the story of an immigrant from an Eastern Europe country and his odyssey in an United States International Airport.

Selection of 3 film scenes and a text including comments and didactic exercises. Material prepared by Romina Galiussi and Carlos Gutiérrez (UBA)
Source: Ética & Cine CD ROM (UBA, 2003-2006)

• Va, vis et deviens (Go, See and Become)

(Radu Mihaileanu, 2005)

The film narrates the story of an African boy sent by his mother to Israel, as a part of the Jewish immigration program in Etiopia in the late 1980’s.

Text by Mónica Santovsky
Source: Ética & Cine CD ROM (UBA, October 2006)