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Independent Online Edition > News : app2: "A 1950s thriller and a Danish film exploring the sexuality of teenage girls are among the top 10 films that British schoolchildren should see by the age of 14.
The list, compiled by the British Film Institute (BFI) after consulting up to 80 experts in cinema and education, includes only one film made in England. That film was Kes, Ken Loach's award-winning production about the relationship between a working-class boy from Barnsley and a kestrel.
A surprise omission was Billy Elliot, about a boy from a pit village who becomes a ballet dancer - which is on the curriculum in Sweden.
Cary Bazalgette, head of education at the BFI, said the top 10 was ' quite a controversial list that's likely to provoke continuing debate'.
'But that's the idea,' she added. 'We want people to discuss what children should see - rather than what they shouldn't see.' "
The list, compiled by the British Film Institute (BFI) after consulting up to 80 experts in cinema and education, includes only one film made in England. That film was Kes, Ken Loach's award-winning production about the relationship between a working-class boy from Barnsley and a kestrel.
A surprise omission was Billy Elliot, about a boy from a pit village who becomes a ballet dancer - which is on the curriculum in Sweden.
Cary Bazalgette, head of education at the BFI, said the top 10 was ' quite a controversial list that's likely to provoke continuing debate'.
'But that's the idea,' she added. 'We want people to discuss what children should see - rather than what they shouldn't see.' "
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