Focus on the Future: European Dialogues on Film Education

Why does film and media education matter? How do different European countries envision its future? And what can we do today to ensure audiovisual literacy becomes a natural part of education across Europe in the next decade?

Experts in film education from the V4 countries (Czechia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary), along with educators from the Netherlands and Germany, will come together for a panel discussion to share experiences, national strategies, and perspectives on film and media education. Together, they'll explore common ground, identify challenges, and seek opportunities for collaboration–aiming to shape a shared vision for the future of film education in Europe.

The discussion will offer a behind-the-scenes look into diverse educational systems, open up conversations about institutional support, and outline tangible steps that can strengthen the role of film and media education across the continent. 

This panel is open to teachers, educational institutions, professionals in the field, and anyone passionate about film and audiovisual literacy. The programme will be held in English and translated into Czech.

Speakers:

• Jasper Vreken (the Netherlands) – Documaken
• Daniela Nicklisch (Germany) – Hermann-Hesse-Gymnasium Berlin
• Christian Dirksen (Germany) – IGS Herder
• Tereza Czesany Dvořáková (Czechia) – FAMU, Department of Film Studies, Faculty of Arts CUNI
• Emese Erdős (Hungary) – National Film Institute, Film Archive
• Barbora Andor Tóthová (Slovakia) – Kino Úsmev

Moderated by Filip Rambousek.

Created in collaboration with Audiovisual HUB Prague.

PARTICIPATION IN THE PROGRAM WILL BE POSSIBLE AFTER WRITTEN CONFIRMATION OF REGISTRATION. REGISTER HERE.

FREE OF CHARGE.

For more info, contact us at adela@boofest.cz.

Jasper Vreken

For the past twenty years, Jasper has been teaching film with great enthusiasm to secondary school students. At the Montessori Lyceum Amsterdam, he guides young people in discovering the power of film – from short reports and trailers to horror films, commercials, and fiction stories. He is also the director of Stichting Documaken, an organization that supports students across the Netherlands in creating documentaries as part of their final research projects. Through this process, they learn how to turn their ideas and research into meaningful films that tell real stories. Finally, Japer develops and leads an after-school film program in which students work together to create short fiction films. In these projects, creativity takes center stage as they bring their own stories to life on screen.

Daniela Nicklisch

Daniela teaches German and history and is an experienced, long-standing film education teacher, which is her passion. She sees working with film as a way to motivate students to work independently and creatively, which boosts their self-confidence and enables them to experience success beyond traditional teaching methods. Her focus is on combining film analysis with practical film work. Daniela works as a seminar leader for teachers, provides film training for teachers and educators, writes film booklets, and creates worksheets for working with film in the classroom. She has established her own film department at her school, the Hermann-Hesse-Gymnasium in Berlin-Kreuzberg. She is a member of the Film Education Network in Berlin. The network meets regularly to exchange ideas about possibilities and methods of film education.

Christian Dirksen

Christian studied art education, history, and social studies for teaching in Frankfurt am Main. He has been working for 20 years at IGS Herder in Frankfurt am Main, a cultural school of the state of Hessen. There, he is engaged in various aspects of film education: in a four-hour practical film day, the youth film jury group, the short film break group, as well as in subject lessons. For the past five years, he has participated with the practical film day in the renowned international film education program Le cinéma, cent ans de jeunesse (CCAJ). At the school, he coordinates the cooperation with the German Film Institute & Film Museum (DFF).

Tereza Czesany Dvořáková

Tereza works in academia as the Head of the Department of Production at FAMU and also teaches at the Department of Film Studies at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University. In addition to her long-standing focus on film industry studies, she has also been deeply involved in the field of film education. Over a decade ago, she initiated the establishment of the Film Education Department at the National Film Archive. She was the first chairperson of the Association for Film and Audiovisual Education. Tereza has led two research projects mapping the presence and development of film education in Czech elementary and secondary schools (2016, 2022). As an author of educational materials for both teachers and children, she has collaborated with several initiatives, including the international project CinEd. She was a member of the core expert committee for the Arts and Culture curriculum area during the revision of the Framework Educational Programmes for Basic Education. She is the author or co-author of three children’s books about film and audiovisual media: How Film Was Made (2017), How a Film Is Made (2019), and What Television Was and Is (2020).

Emese Erdős

Emese is an education manager at National Film Institute, Film Archive - Klassz Educational and Youth Programme. She has been working at the National Film Institute since 2017, and for two and a half years as the Fast Forward Programme’s coordinator organising workshops and masterclasses for young filmmakers. She has been working at the Film Archive since March 2020. She develops educational content and coordinates the Klassz education and youth programme. She has been working as an education manager at the FilmED project (2024-2025) which has been supported by Creative Europe Media. She organizes screenings, lectures, workshops, summer camps for students (age 6–25), conferences, a pedagogical film club and trainings for teachers.

Barbora Andor Tóthová

Barbora is a cultural manager, researcher, and co-founder of Kino Úsmev. As part of NGO CINEFIL, in 2016 she and her colleagues saved the last remaining original cinema in Košice - Kino Úsmev. In 2019 Barbora launched inclusive film programs and film education in Kino Úsmev, including Inclusive film festival and summer camp for kids and youth. Barbora recently completed her PhD. in Regional Economics, focusing on grassroots cultural centers and their urban impact. In 2024, she became a Creative Impact Research Center Europe Fellow and founded the research and policy platform Caring Culture.