Make the Theater Your Classroom
Our curated film programs and FilmEd experience—including audience voting, post-screening discussions, and Q&As led by a Festival educator—provide students with a thought-provoking, fun, and dynamic way to explore timely and important topics like race, identity, and belonging. Teachers receive pre-visit and post-visit discussion guides that encourage creativity and critical-thinking through vocabulary, discussion questions, and activity prompts.
Why field trips?
FilmEd Field Trips offer the same energetic, participatory atmosphere of the annual Festival that engages students in a lively learning environment. Our programs are available for grades K-2 and 3-5 and utilize short films that celebrate the beauty and complexity of our world while emphasizing the experiences of underrepresented characters and filmmakers. NYICFF’s nearly 30 years of curatorial excellence ensures that selected films have been created by a diverse group of international filmmakers and feature characters not often found on or behind the screen—namely women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA, the disabled, and other historically excluded communities. Screenings take place in multiple venues and libraries in order to meet classes in their own neighborhoods.
Admission is $10/student for most schools. Admission for Title I schools is free.
Upcoming Field Trips
Grades K-2
Tues October 15
IFC Center (Manhattan)
Mon November 18
Quad Cinema (Manhattan)
Tues December 3
Bronx Library Center
Thurs December 5
Queens Library (Central)
Fri December 6 FULL
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
Grades 3-5
Mon October 7
IFC Center (Manhattan)
Mon October 21 FULL
Quad Cinema (Manhattan)
Mon November 4 FULL
IFC Center (Manhattan)
Upcoming Field Trips
Grades K-2
Thurs February 13
Queens Library (Central)
Fri April 4 ALMOST FULL
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
Wed April 9
Bronx Library Center
Fri April 25 FULL
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
Mon April 28
Quad Cinema (Manhattan)
Tues April 29
IFC Center (Manhattan)
Wed May 7 ALMOST FULL
Bronx Library Center
Thurs May 15
Queens Library (Central)
Grades 3-5
Tues January 14, 2025
IFC Center (Manhattan)
Thurs January 23
Queens Library (Central)
Fri January 24 FULL
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
Mon January 27
Quad Cinema (Manhattan)
Wed February 5 FULL
Bronx Library Center
Tues February 11 FULL
IFC Center (Manhattan)
Fri May 9 FULL
Brooklyn Public Library (Central)
Tues May 13 ALMOST FULL
IFC Center (Manhattan)
Tues May 20 FULL
IFC Center (Manhattan)
Wed May 21 FULL
Bronx Library Center
Thurs May 29 FULL
Queens Library (Central)
Dual-Language & Festival Field Trips
We offer a select number of field trips during the course of the March Festival. These trips consist of one feature film and, when possible, a filmmaker Q&A (either in person or virtually). These trips are a great opportunity for schools with dual language programs, but all schools are welcome.
All Festival trips will take place at SVA Theatre in Manhattan and will begin between 10 and 10:30am.
Recommended grades 2-4
83 min, screening in French or Spanish; with subtitles
This is the story of a girl who is different. Her world is Coyoacán, in Mexico City. Sparkling and vibrant, everything fascinates her. Say hola to Frida Kahlo.
Recommended grades 5-7
85 min, in Spanish with subtitles
Two brothers must work together when one finds a wormhole and accidentally transports to the future. ¡Salta! will be followed by Science on Screen® Chat: Jumping through Space & Time
Recommended grades 3-8
84 min, in English
Animated adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's beloved, Robinson Crusoe-style chapter book about perseverance and friendship on a not-so-deserted island.
Science on Screen® Chat: Jumping through Space & Time
Let's jump through time, space, and the laws of physics! We'll introduce the Einstein-Rosen principle, describing the possibilities of wormholes and mathematical tunnels and bridges that offer shortcuts to connect different realities. Our guest speaker, director Olga Osorio, will break down scenes from her delightful feature (based on her 2017 short film Einstein-Rosen) and its story of two brothers, their scientist mom and how their own mathematical explorations and theories of quantum physics might allow them, and us, to time travel and revisit history.
Science on Screen® is an initiative of the Coolidge Corner Theatre, with major support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our 2024-25 FilmEd program is supported by a generous gift from the Barry-Thouez Family in honor of Jeremy Attia.
Jeremy was a passionate audio-visual technician from France, where he was frequently dispatched to cover the Cannes Film Festival. He loved the camaraderie of film and TV sets, and approached every opportunity with a wide open heart. Jeremy passed away in June 2021 after battling cancer for four years.