(essay-documentary)
Director: Cristina Chirvasie
Producer: Grațiana Lăzărescu
Runtime: 29 min.
Romania, 2018
Synopsis: Childhood is not just a segment of time in a person's life where the accumulation of knowledge takes precedence, but it is like a country where the pure soul of the child reigns supreme. Education is not merely an occupation concerning the intellect and the development of skills, but a noble art and a holy work. Until the age of seven, parents are the absolute role models for the child – or, at least, that is how it should be. Afterwards, however, the teacher must also take over the baton and, in a balanced tandem, form an indestructible team with the parents. Yet, there is a lane in which this marathon must take place, and it is called creativity. This is the space where you can make the child's need for wonder and their native imagination bear good fruit. At the same time, however, children's creativity can become a source of knowledge for adults. A person who has dedicated more than 50 years of their life to studying children's creativity speaks to us about all of this, having developed a proprietary method for stimulating it that bears his name – the Zaica method.
