SCHOOL TOUR
MARCH 2025 | IN-PERSON & ONLINE
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GRADE RECOMMENDATIONS
Films featured in the AIFF Kids School Tour have been approved and assigned grade range recommendations through the assistance of the AIFF Kids Teachers Advisory Committee (TAC), a committee of educators who viewed preselected material for the program. We understand children and youth respond in varied ways and recognize the final choices belong to teachers, parents and guardians. Where necessary, we’ve noted content warnings for mature subject matter, coarse language, nudity and/or violence on our website.
ACTIVITY PLANS
Alongside this guide, you can find curriculum tools on our website (www.aiffkids.ca). These resources are a tool for getting the most out of the AIFF Kids program and include pre-screening and post-screening activities that complement, among others, Media Studies, Language Arts, Social Studies, Visual Arts and Cultural Industries modules.
PLEASE NOTE: While the AIFF Kids program is available free of charge, schools attending in-person events are responsible (logistically and financially) for their own transport to and from the cinema in their community.
FEATURE FILM
FLOW (Grades 4-12)
Cat is a solitary animal, but when its home is devastated by a great flood he is forced to find refuge on a boat populated by various species. The animals, including a secretary bird, a capybara, a lemur, and a dog, have to team up despite their differences in search for dry land, and while navigating the dangers along the way.
Golden Globe Winner for Best Animated Feature and nominated for the Academy Awards.
Content advisories: Some frightening scenes, climate change/disaster
Themes: Working together in the face of adversity, compassion, gratitude, and perseverance
Director: Gints Zilbalodis
Country: Latvia, Belgium, France
Runtime: 85 minutes
Curriculum Connections
This film provides a form of visual mentor text, which is valuable in both English and French language arts lessons. It will also spark discussions about the elements of writing for film, such as the development of characters, setting, plot, and resolution, as the framework of analysis. Students can deepen their comprehension of the film by first retelling the events, and then applying their skill by posing questions and making inferences. Most importantly, students can explore the film content as conveying a message, using critical thinking, to allow them to discover the role of inclusivity as important to survival when faced with powerful adversity
SHORTS PROGRAMME 1
Grades P-6 | Total Running Time: 67 minutes
RICE BALL
Told through animation, a young Taiwanese schoolkid is afraid to bring her lunch to school out of the fear of being ridiculed for being different.
Themes: friendship, acceptance, sharing of cultures
Director: Kristina Pringle 宇欣
Country: UK
Runtime: 2 minutes
BAKING WITH BORIS
Every morning, Boris the village baker makes a fresh batch of crusty bread and pastries for all his neighbours until… Achoo! He can’t stop sneezing. He has become allergic to flour. How will he manage to keep baking for everyone in the village?
Themes: Community, problem-solving, sharing
Director: Maša Avramović
Country: France
Runtime: 8 minutes
TWO ONE TWO
Told through animation, a young Taiwanese schoolkid is afraid to bring her lunch to school out of the fear of being ridiculed for being different.
Themes: friendship, acceptance, sharing of cultures
Director: Kristina Pringle 宇欣
Country: UK
Runtime: 2 minutes