Films With Class Shorts Program – Middle/High School 2026
DIRECTOR(S):
Andrew Garcia, Derek Brown; Marie Cornemillot, Manon Finet, Alexia Garde, Maïlys Girouard, Manon Laporte, Salomé Pereira, Milo-Clément Philipp, Margaux Plassard, Emma Stassi, Flavie Vericel; Cece King, Jeannette Louie, Danny Schmidt SYNOPSIS:
Teaching through film. RiverRun recognizes the unique and critical role arts education plays in reaching students both inside and outside the classroom. Through our free education program, Films With Class, we present free screenings of carefully curated films for area students at the Festival each spring.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A.
Films with Class is sponsored by
Patty & Malcolm Brown in honor of Jane McKim
Presented in Multiple Parts
Densho
Electronic artist Shigeto explores his family’s history and the lasting effects of WWII internment, weaving ...
7 min | Andrew Garcia | USA | English
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The Nest
Inside Bronx International High School, a sanctuary for New York's most vulnerable youth, an immigrant communi...
17 min | Derek Brown | USA | North Carolina | English
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The City of Silence
In a world where breaking the silence will get you killed, Ethan will discover the healing power of music. Stu...
7 min | Marie Cornemillot, Manon Finet, Alexia Garde, Maïlys Girouard, Manon Laporte, Salomé Pereira, Milo-Clément Philipp, Margaux Plassard, Emma Stassi, Flavie Vericel | France | U.S. | English
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Si la Isla Quiere
On Chile’s Robinson Crusoe Island—home to more endemic species per square kilometer than the Galápagos—...
29 min | Cece King | USA | Spanish
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Us Being Epic
Enmeshed within the panoramic history of photography, an epic memoir unfolds, pictorializing the cultural and ...
19 min | Jeannette Louie | USA | North Carolina | English
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The Book of George
George McKenzie Jr. traded the hard streets and violence of New York City for a life photographing some of the...
15 min | Danny Schmidt | USA | North Carolina | English
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