National Schools Film Week logo Film Education logo

The world’s largest free film festival for cinemas and schools

Beasts of the Southern Wild

A young child runs away from a group of people who are out of focus in the background

Faced with her father's fading health and environmental changes that release an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy leaves her Delta-community home in search of her mother.

Director: Benh Zeitlin

Starring: Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry and Levy Easterly

Level: AS, A2, KS3, KS4

Subjects: Citizenship, Film Studies, French, Media Studies

Resource links: Links upcoming. Please check back later.

LATEST NEWS

London Film Festival tour

Information about upcoming film screenings as part of [...]

-Posted 16 November 2012

Film choice...

Young Film Critic winner James Kyne writes about film [...]

-Posted 14 November 2012

What should we be watching?

Last year's Young Film Critic winner Lizzie Daniels [...]

-Posted 12 November 2012

Read all →