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Martin Ganguly: Film education project at the John-Lennon-Gymnasium in Berlin

The projects, most of which last a whole day, teach the students about film history and film analysis. One of the seminars was about the work of Ozu. The students (aged 16-18) watched first a short documentary about his work together followed by the feature TOKYO STORY (Tōkyō monogatari, Japan 1953). After analyzing the form and content, they made within five days their own short film on the topic of “generational conflict” and were asked to use Ozu's style and way of filming.

Dr. Martin Ganguly is head of the Berlinale's school project since 2004 and is a university lecturer, teacher, author, moderator, consultant, examiner and coach in the fields of (film and theatre) education for various institutions and publishers in Germany and abroad. In addition to his teaching degree and his Ph.D., the educational and media scientist also studied directing and acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna. Four of his multimedia teaching materials have been awarded the prestigious European Comenius Medal. From 2013-2020 he was curator/facilitator for the Germany-wide project “Klassiker sehen-Filme verstehen” (“See Classics, Understand Classics”) of the DFA (Deutsche Filmakademie) /Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung for the mediation of film history and works as  well as a freelancer for the DFF (Deutsches Filminstitut) in Frankfurt and for the Wim Wenders Foundation in as well as for several intercultural educational projects.