Upper Savoy secondary school students have sharpened their critical sense
Supervised by their teachers, nearly 1,500 middle school students took part in the Décod’art competition for the best film critic. The students went to the Le Mikado cinema in Annecy on Friday April 8 to attend the award ceremony.
This competition, organized at the departmental level by the Décod’art association and directed by Marie-Laure Siffointe, is submitted each year to the criticism of middle and high school students for a film programmed within the framework of “College at the cinema”. An event supported by the Department as part of the “Paths of Culture” scheme and by the Association of Parents of Catholic Education Students in Haute-Savoie. The work submitted for review was the animated film “Parvana, a childhood in Afghanistan” by Nora Twomey, released in 2018.
Seventeen establishments competed. The copies received showed great qualities. After discussions around the film led by the association, the winners were rewarded. Nine first prizes and seven second prizes were attended.
The award-winning students were applauded by the sixty spectators present. But it’s all the classes who, thanks to the work on the film, have developed their critical spirit, in particular in relation to the animated image, so important to the decoder in our society.