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Talking About Mental Health with Students (Ages 9-11)

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There are many ways in which our minds and bodies deal with stress, fatigue, sadness, and anxiety. This playlist has been designed to serve as conversation starters with students on these important issues of mental health. Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici. Films in This Playlist Include A Change of Scenery Nightmare at School Mystery of the Secret Room Overdose

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Talking About Mental Health with Students (Ages 9-11)

There are many ways in which our minds and bodies deal with stress, fatigue, sadness, and anxiety. This playlist has been designed to serve as conversation starters with students on these important issues of mental health.

Pour visionner cette sélection en français, cliquez ici.

Films in This Playlist Include
A Change of Scenery
Nightmare at School
Mystery of the Secret Room
Overdose

Playlist

  • A Change of Scenery
    A Change of Scenery
    Anita Lebeau 2019 3 min

    Meet Annie and take a whirlwind tour through her busy world while discovering the power that lies in the small choices we make every day.

  • Nightmare at School
    Nightmare at School
    Catherine Arcand 2007 8 min

    Who hasn't felt apprehensive at the thought of starting high school? Playing on imagination and humour, this short film offers viewers a thought-provoking piece dealing with the transition that young people between the ages of 10 and 13 experience. Inspired by the work of Escher and Magritte, Catherine Arcand has created a graphically rich film through optical illusions and trompe-l'oeil effects. Her style aptly illustrates the theme of perceptions and is perfectly suited to conveying the dream world into which the film takes us. A film without words.

  • Mystery of the Secret Room
    Mystery of the Secret Room
    Wanda Nolan 2016 5 min

    This animated short introduces us to Grace, a 10-year-old girl who uses her creative superpowers to navigate the emotional landscape of her mother's depression. It's an inspiring portrait of family, adversity, and resilience.

    Using hand-drawn animation to bring two distinct worlds together – the muted, solid world of reality and the saturated palette of Grace's imagination – the film offers a textured story full of surprises, challenges, and emotions. A moving collaboration between writer/filmmaker Wanda Nolan and animator Claire Blanchet.

  • Overdose
    Overdose
    Claude Cloutier 1994 5 min

    In this short animation, we meet a young boy leads such a regimented life that he has no more time just to be a kid. Between school, tennis lessons, swimming lessons, art classes, homework and piano practice, he can barely get any rest. Inspired by Article 31 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, this short animated film by Claude Cloutier pleads for children’s right to rest and leisure.