Movie Moment Brings Library Visitors Together
Libraries provide a public space that serves as a meeting point for people of different ages and life situations, alongside the reading experiences they offer. In addition to borrowing and reading books, the library is an important social meeting place for many. Did you know that movie events held in libraries are an effective way to increase interaction among library customers? Interest in movies acts as a unifying factor, similar to the shared hobby of reading.
Movies as Conversation Starters
In addition to literature, libraries can delight their customers with various events. Positive experiences have been gained from free movie screenings organized for library users. For example, the regularly held BabyKino (transl. name BabyCinema) event at Kallio Library in Helsinki since 2010 has attracted a loyal audience of parents with babies. The idea behind BabyCinema is to offer a refreshing movie moment for parents and their little ones in their everyday lives. Events like these can be seen primarily as activities that bring library customers together: watching a movie provides an opportunity to chat with people experiencing the same life stage, fostering new connections.
Events built around movies can be organized for various groups of library visitors, not just for families with babies, but also for seniors or youth. Everyone is welcome in the library, and through its activities, the library can promote positive interaction among its visitors. A shared movie moment serves as a great conversation starter, creating connections between people. Low-threshold events can also help prevent potential loneliness and social exclusion.
Elokuvalisenssi Facilitates License Management
Public screening of movies intended for private use requires permission. Elokuvalisenssi offers libraries an easy way to manage copyright matters. It acts as a link between movie studios and the organizers of movie events, providing the necessary copyright licenses.
From Elokuvalisenssi, you can obtain public screening licenses. Explore our license applications for more details. The Combination License makes organizing movie events easy and cost-effective: you can screen thousands of top-notch movies unlimitedly for 12 months. The Single Movie License, on the other hand, is suitable for individual movie screenings if movies are shown in the library only a couple of times a year on average.
We Help You Choose the Right Movie
A good movie evokes emotions in the viewer and broadens their worldview. The impact of a movie is enhanced when the viewer can relate to the human destinies portrayed in the film, finding connections to their own life. Elokuvalisenssi can suggest a suitable work for your event and audience, whether you are organizing a movie night for teenagers or a classic film screening for an older audience.
Also, explore our movie search, where we have compiled highlighted movies represented by us and created convenient movie profiles for them to facilitate exploration. Elokuvalisenssi offers free, nationally aligned teaching materials to support film education, which you can find in the profiles of selected movies by searching for “teaching materials” in the movie search.
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