Abstract
The article discusses, from a pedagogical point of view, the film productions addressed to children. What children learn when they watch a film? What motivates filmmakers to produce films for children? Every child film is educational? What characterizes an educational film? Based on Virginia Kastrup's ideas on a "cognitive invention policy", the text advocates the need to establish a new cognitive policy for education, for learning and for children relationship with cinema. In dialogue with film critic Alain Bergala and philosopher Walter Benjamin, among others, the article discusses parameters that can facilitate the construction of a filmic language for children in line with this proposed cognitive policy.
Keywords:
theater and education; educational cinema; children's films; learning