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A guide with a wide range of high-quality content, concrete information and practical advice as well as possible results that can help you during your journey with children and young people in hospitals.

With this guide, we want to reach a very wide audience, because everyone can contribute to the wellbeing of children and young people – artists, teachers and educators, medical staff, researchers and policy makers.

It includes a collection of very diverse examples of good practices developed and implemented by the partners of the Film in Hospital international project for children and young people in hospitals.

Implementation of cultural and artistic projects in hospitals is specific. Each day is characterised by particular medical examinations and procedures in different wards. Children’s physical, mental and emotional wellbeing can vary from day to day. Sometimes the morning does not match the evening. However, despite specific circumstances, such projects and activities yield extraordinary positive effects in hospitals: for both children and young people, their parents as well as all other employees who take care of health and wellbeing of young patients.

You can read this guide from the beginning to the end or the other way around. You can take a little here and a little there. Make it suitable, up-to-date and relevant for your context.

The guide in English (pdf) »

Photo: Karolina Maruszak (Belgium)

February means festival-time for the Belgian Film in Hospital partner; JEF! We bring this festival feeling to all platforms of all partners. Our 10 selected short films in competitions are to be watched a whole year long in all participating hospitals and revalidation centers. And moreover, Belgian viewers become jury members. They vote for their favorite short film and hand out the JEF in the hospital award.
This year (2024), the winning short film is…. Princess Aubergine by Dina Velikovskaya (Germany).
Congrats Dina! Go watch the short film on one of our platforms.

Il Nuovo Fantarca (Italian partner) and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore ran in 2022/2023 a research activity aimed at investigating the main elements of the Film in Hospital experience in order to provide each partner of the project with useful indicators to optimise the composition of the catalogue of titles on the platform.

To this aim, the research project identified the following objectives:

1) Survey the general conditions of the experience of viewing audiovisual products on the platform.

2) Identify the elements that qualify the fruition of audiovisual products on the platform from the point of view of its functions and capacity for involvement.

3) Relate these qualifying elements to the titles and, more generally, to the entire catalogue offered by the platform.

Are you interested in reading the full research report? Click in the tab ‘research’ and download the full report.

In honour of Children’s art day on the 19th of November, the Film in Hospital team presents you our brand new promotion video!

Special thanks to:

All participating partners, Creative Europe Media, Klinički bolnički centar rijka, Skånes Universitets-sjukhus, Vall d’Hebron, UZ Leuven and Ospedale Pediatrico Giovanni XXIII.

Siren’s Tail (es: Cua de sirena) is a Spanish stop-motion short film with no dialogue, directed by Alba Barbé i Serra about Roque. Roque is disoriented because he was told that he was a human and that he could become a siren. He didn’t understand why it was one thing that had to become another. Also forever! One thing or the other. Black or white. Meat or fish. Boy or girl. Human or siren… Discover its trailer here and watch the film on all Film in Hospital platforms!

https://weirdmarket.es/en/

Egon the Hat (sl: Egon Klobuk) is a Slovenian animated short film with no dialogue, directed by Igor Šinkovec about a young boy named Egon who expresses his feelings and emotions through his hat that consequently changes its color and shape, which helps us guess Egon’s mood and anticipate reactions. Watch the film on all Film in Hospital platforms!

Film in Hospital’s Spanish partner, Pack Magic, was invited at Weird festival to talk about our project. Weird Market is the most important professional animation, video games and new media market which takes place in Spain and one of the most important European markets. Weird (former 3D Wire) appears as a renowned event in the Mapping the Animation Industry in Europe publication of the European Audiovisual Observatory and the European Commission. Go Alfred!

The Film in Hospital project will be presented in Milan at the Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore on Friday 29 September by Rosa Ferro, who is the coordinator of the Italian platform as part of the seminar “Media Education in healthcare contexts and places of care”

The Italian partner – Nuovo Fantarca – has developed Hidden Cinema, a browser game based on the Hidden Object gamification mechanic, which consists of introducing a type of puzzle where you need to pay attention to locate hidden objects within a static area.

In this game, the player wanders from one place to another to discover objects that alow the player to finish the game. Each object refers to a Movie. The player climbs the leaderboard based on their progress.

Discover the game: www.cinemainospedale.it