Primary education

At Eye Filmmuseum, children of all different educational levels can learn about film. Film as art, film and entertainment, film as cultural heritage, and film as a communication tool: at Eye, students will learn about film from different perspectives. Visiting Eye Filmmuseum means a day (or part of a day) devoted to film.

still from Mina Moes (Mirjam de With, NL 2011)

Cinema Programme | A Nose for Film

How important is sound for a film? Is the film based on a true story or not? How can you tell? In A Nose for Film, you learn to look beyond the obvious.

Cinema Programme | Choose the Film

If you could choose your own films, which would you choose and why? Animations, documentaries, very old or funny films? In Choose the Film, your class compiles a film programme.

Cinema Programme | Curious (But True)

In film, anything can happen that is impossible in real life. Together with the museum educator, the pupils investigate how filmmakers take them into the story.

Cinema Programme and Workshop | At the Pictures

Toddlers watch five short films in the screening room. Afterwards, they continue to play in the cinema with form, projection, shadow, movement and colour.

Guest Lesson | A Suitcase Filled with Film

How exciting, a suitcase filled with film in the classroom. What’s in it? In this guest lesson, pre-schoolers watch and listen to special, funny short films from Eye’s collection.

Guest Lesson | Animate Your Class

How do you make an egg laugh and move? Through viewing and hands-on assignments based on films from Eye’s collection, pupils discover the unlimited possibilities of animation.

Guest Lesson | Film for the Future

What would you like to see preserved in 100 years’ time? Eye preserves an enormous number of films, they make up Eye’s collection. But why do we preserve all these films?

Guest Lesson | Just Like in the Film

In this guest lesson, pupils will travel back in time. Using films from Eye’s collection, they will discover some of the clever tricks used by filmmakers of the past.

Children look at film objects in the permanent presentation

Guided Tour | Discover Cinema

Dive into the world of film with this interactive tour of Eye’s film collection highlights and 125 years of film.

still from Hair Love (Matthew A. Cherry & Bruce W. Smith, US 2019)

Online | Film Lessons

Filmkwartier is our monthly film lesson designed for primary schools. Each lesson consists of a short film followed by an assignment, is fifteen minutes long and free of charge.

Online | Presentation on Film

There’s lots and lots to tell and find out about film. Do you want to give a presentation or do a project on film? You can find everything you need right here.

Still from Binti (2019, Frederike Migom).

Online I Looking for Films

Are you looking for films to show in the classroom? Search our databases full of film titles suitable for film education.

Children act as if they're sad in the Acting in front of the camera workshop

Workshop | Acting in Front of the Camera

In this workshop your pupils will be real film stars on the big screen for a little while. Together they will act short scenes and discover what makes their acting real.

Students work on their stop motion film together

Workshop | Stop Motion Studio

This workshop focuses on the essence of all audiovisual media: how do you create movement, how do you play with images, and how do you translate an idea into a film?

If you are interested in visiting us, please feel free to contact us via educatie@eyefilm.nl or 020 7582 360. We also offer non-binding advice on film education.

Primary education

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