A selection of study guides for films screened by SFFS Youth Education are available here for download. Some of these guides are interactive PDFs, so you can easily jump to the page or section you wish to use by clicking on the table of contents at the top of each page. Many of the older guides do not have that feature.

Please note that grade recommendations can be broad; there are more specific age recommendations on the second page of each guide as well as more detailed information about the films that will help you determine if they are right for your students. All films that are listed in other languages include English subtitles.

Click the headers to sort by Film, Country, Language, Length, Format or Grade Range.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Film	Country	Language	Length	Format	Grade Range
El Salon Mexico	Mexico	English	13 mins	animation	2–8
Eleanor's Secret	France	English	76 mins	animation	2–5
Elementary Cool	USA	English	12 mins	narrative	2–5
Family Shorts	Mixed	Mixed	Mixed	shorts	2–6
Flights of Fancy	Mixed	Mixed	Mixed	shorts	2–6
James and the Giant Peach	USA	English	79 mins	animation	2–6
Opal Dream	Australia	English	85 mins	narrative	2–8
Party Mix (2011)	Mixed	Mixed	Mixed	shorts	2–6
Party Mix (2012)	Mixed	Mixed	Mixed	shorts	2–6
Play by Play	USA	English	23 mins	narrative	2–6
Sammy's Adventures	Belgium	English	85 mins	animation	2–6
Sandman and the Lost Sand of Dreams	Germany	English	80 mins	animation	2–5
Storytellers Show	Mixed	Mixed	Mixed	shorts	2–6
Turtle: The Incredible Journey	England	English	81 mins	documentary	2–8

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Film	Country	Language	Length	Format	Grade Range
2nd Verse: The Rebirth of Poetry	USA	English	79 mins	documentary	6–12
After the Storm	USA	English	89 mins	documentary	6–12
Aurelie LaFlamme's Diary	Canada	French	108 mins	narrative	4–8
Barber of Birmingham	USA	English	25 mins	documentary	6–12
Boxers and Ballerinas	USA	Spanish	84 mins	documentary	6–12
Boy Who Plays on the Buddhas of Bamiyan	Afghanistan	English	96 mins	documentary	6–12
Boys of Baraka	USA, Kenya	English	83 mins	documentary	6–12
Brooklyn Castle	USA	English	99 mins	narrative	4–8
Brownstones to Red Dirt	USA	English	85 mins	documentary	4–8
Chandani: Daughter of the Elephant Whisperer	Sri Lanka	English, Sinhalese	86 mins	documentary	4–12
Double Dare	USA	English	81 mins	documentary	7–12
Girlhood	USA	English	80 mins	documentary	6–12
Girls Rock	USA	English	90 mins	documentary	6–12
Girls' POV	Mixed	Mixed	Mixed	shorts	5–12
JUMP!	USA	English	85 mins	documentary	5–12
Little White Lies	Germany	German	100 mins	narrative	5–12
Lucasfilm: Avengers VFX	USA	English	n/a	multimedia presentation	6–12
Lucasfilm: ILM Inside the Art Department	USA	English	n/a	multimedia presentation	6–12
Lucasfilm: Inside Motion Capture	USA	English	n/a	multimedia presentation	6–12
Lucasfilm: LucasArts	USA	English	n/a	multimedia presentation	6–12
Lucasfilm: Skywalker Sound	USA	English	n/a	multimedia presentation	6–12
Lucasfilm: We Build Cool Stuff	USA	English	n/a	multimedia presentation	6–12
Meanwhile in Mamelodi	South Africa	English, Zulu	74 mins	documentary	7–12
Mia and the Magoo	France	French	92 mins	animation	4–9
Phoenix Dance	USA	English	25 mins	documentary	6–12
Son of a Lion	Pakistan	Farsi	92 mins	documentary	7–12
Sounds Like Teen Spirit	England	English	89 mins	documentary	2–8
Speaking in Tongues	USA	English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish	60 mins	documentary	5–12
Tahaan	India	Hindi	105 mins	narrative	6–12
Tales of the Night	France	French	84 mins	animation	5–12
Third Monday in October	USA	English	91 mins	documentary	5–12
Winged Migration	Global	English	81 mins	documentary	2–8

HIGH SCHOOL

Film	Country	Language	Length	Format	Grade Range
1000 Journals	USA	English	88 mins	documentary	9–12
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry	China	English, Mandarin	91 mins	documentary	10–12
Amandla: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony	South Africa	English, Zulu	108 mins	documentary	6–12
American Blackout	USA	English	86 mins	documentary	6–12
Bad Faith	France	French	88 mins	narrative	9–12
Bitter Seeds	India	Marathi, English	88 mins	documentary	8–12
Children of the Princess of Cleves	France	French	69 mins	documentary	8–12
Chisholm '72: Unbought & Unbossed	USA	English	75 mins	documentary	7–12
Class	France	French	130 mins	narrative	9–12
Colony	USA	English	85 mins	documentary	7–12
Crime After Crime	USA	English	93 mins	documentary	9–12
Crude	USA, Ecuador	English, Spanish	101 mins	documentary	8–12
Czech Dream	Czech Republic	Czech	90 mins	documentary	8–12
D tour	USA	English	99 mins	documentary	9–12
Dust	Germany	German	90 mins	documentary	9–12
Echoes of the Rainbow	Hong Kong	Cantonese, Mandarin, French	117 mins	narrative	5–12
Elevate	USA	English, Wolof, French	83 mins	documentary	7–12
Ethel	USA	English	97 mins	documentary	6–12
Everyday People	USA	English	81 mins	narrative	9–12
Everything's Cool	USA	English	95 mins	documentary	6–12
Father of My Children	France	French	112 mins	narrative	9–12
Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans	USA	English	68 mins	documentary	6–12
Favela Rising	Brazil	Portugese	80 mins	documentary	7–12
Flow: For Love of Water	USA	English	83 mins	documentary	10–12
French Girl	France	Mixed	84 mins	narrative	7–12
Girl Trouble	USA	English	72 mins	documentary	6–12
Hands Up	France	French	90 mins	narrative	8–12
Hell House	USA	English	85 mins	documentary	9–12
Home of the Brave	USA	English	74 mins	documentary	6–12
Iraq in Fragments	Iraq	Arabic	94 mins	documentary	6–12
Island President	Maldives	English	101 mins	documentary	7–12
James' Journey to Jerusalem	Israel	Hebrew, Zulu	87 mins	narrative	6–12
Last Call at the Oasis	USA	English	105 mins	documentary	7–12
Last Train Home	China	Mandarin	87 mins	documentary	8–12
Lost Boys of Sudan	Sudan	English, Dinka, Arabic, Swahili	90 mins	documentary	9–12
Mosquita y Mari	USA	English, Spanish	82 mins	narrative	9–12
Mukhsin	Malaysia	Malay	95 mins	narrative	6–12
Murch	USA	English	78 mins	documentary	9–12
My Kid Could Paint That	USA	English	82 mins	documentary	6–12
Neukolln Unlimited	Germany	German, Arabic	96 mins	documentary	8–12
Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army	USA	Mixed	90 mins	documentary	9–12
New Muslim Cool	USA	English	83 mins	documentary	9–12
Oath	Yemen	English, Arabic	96 mins	documentary	9–12
Off to War	USA	English	90 mins	documentary	10–12
Orange Revolution	Ukraine	Ukrainian, Russian	106 mins	documentary	8–12
Other America	USA	English	83 mins	narrative	9–12
Pipe	Ireland	English	83 mins	documentary	9–12
Pressure Cooker	USA	English	99 mins	documentary	6–12
Presumed Guilty	Mexico	Spanish	91 mins	documentary	9–12
Pursuit of Equality	USA	English	81 mins	documentary	9–12
Real Dirt on Farmer John	USA	English	83 mins	documentary	9–12
Revolutionary Optimists	USA	Mixed	83 mins	documentary	7–12
Runners High	USA	English	86 mins	documentary	6–12
Sanjuro	Japan	Japanese	96 mins	narrative	8–12
Secrecy	USA	English	85 mins	documentary	10–12
Sepet	Malaysia	Mixed	104 mins	documentary	7–12
Sequins	France	French	89 mins	narrative	9–12
Sin Pais	USA, Guatemala	English, Spanish	20 mins	documentary	6–12
Sounds of Sand	France	French	96 mins	narrative	7–12
Stella	France	French	103 mins	narrative	9–12
Strange Culture	USA	English	76 mins	documentary	8–12
Sugar	Dominican Republic	Spanish, English	120 mins	narrative	7–12
Sugar Curtain	Cuba	Spanish	82 mins	documentary	7–12
Tiniest Place	El Salvador	Spanish	104 mins	documentary	9–12
Trouble the Water	USA	English	90 mins	documentary	8–12
Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela	USA	English	73 mins	documentary	6–12
Up the Yangtze	China	Mandarin	93 mins	documentary	7–12
Weather Underground	USA	English	93 mins	documentary	9–12
Whiz Kids	USA	English	82 mins	documentary	6–12