DOK.education: The film for 12- to 16-year-olds
With EXTRAORDINARY MONA, your pupils will watch a short documentary film suitable for their age group and learn background information and interesting facts about the topic and the film's production in an interview with the filmmaker. Our film educators will demonstrate how the film's stylistic devices work and trigger emotions. Young people learn to view films in a differentiated way and are motivated to apply this to their own everyday media use. This helps them become critical and self-aware media users. We show documentary films that tell stories from the lives of young people on an equal footing and with artistic merit.
Teachers have access to comprehensive supporting material for preparing and following up on the film. The educational programme accompanying the film EXTRAORDINARY MONA is suitable for middle secondary schools.Is this film suitable for your class? Then book the cinema workshop in Munich now or register for the use of the online cinema.
EXTRAORDINARY MONA
Sarah Van Dale, Belgium 2023, 16 Min.
Mona has extraordinary superpowers. The 14-year-old and her brother Achille live with autism and often perceive the world more intensely than their friends. When Mona changes schools and has to introduce herself to her new class, her mind goes on a rollercoaster ride.
Director: Sarah Van Dale; Camera: Jochen Decostere; Sound: Raf Enckels; Editing: Geert Veuskens; Music & sound design: DJ Grazzhoppa, Jamz Jamezon; Production: Storyhouse, Maarten Schmidt
Language version: Dutch; with German voice-over
Cinema workshops at the Schule des Sehens
Would you like to experience the film EXTRAORDINARY MONA with your class at one of our cinema screenings?
Dates
90-minute workshop – at 8:40 a.m. / 10:30 a.m. / 12:30 p.m.
- 12 and 13 May 2026 I HFF München
- 12 and 13 May 2026 I Pasinger Fabrik
Event locations
HFF Munich – Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film
Bernd-Eichinger Platz 1, 80333 Munich (Google Maps)
Pasinger Fabrik
August-Exter-Str. 1, 81245 Munich (Google Maps)
Registration
To register your class for the cinema workshops, please contact Kathi Seemann, Co-head DOK.education via E-Mail stating your preferred date and an alternative date:
seemann@dokfest-muenchen.de
+49 89 51 39 97 88 / +49 177 62 92 62 9
Online program of the Schule des Sehens
Schule des Sehens online: 1 Mai bis 31 July 2026
With the free modular system from the Schule des Sehens, you can respond individually to the needs of your class. The four modules, including film, worksheets, and accompanying material, are suitable for use in the classroom, in distance learning, or as homework. Your students will find all the worksheets from the accompanying material as well as other highlights from the film in the online cinema of the Schule des Sehens.
All information about the online programme
After registering, you will receive the accompanying material and personal access to the password-protected online cinema. There, your school class will find the film, the video seminar, worksheets, and various cinema details that will make visiting the online festival an experience to remember.
The online cinemas of Schule des Sehens will open for you on 1 May 2026!
Access to the online cinema for registered school classes
Are you registered? You can watch the film and the digital teaching units using the access data from your personal registration confirmation email. Click on the orange popcorn tile to open the entrance to the online cinema.
Register here for the online version of the Schule des Sehens 2026.
The online cinema for EXTRAORDINARY MONA will open in May 2026.
