Summer 96 invites us to reflect not only on how we remember summer, but also on how cinema can transform memories and emotions into images that seem both real and fleeting. Through a child’s perspective, students are invited to see history as an exercise in memory: the rotoscoping technique, which hovers between realism and fantasy, opens the way to questions about what we remember, what we forget, and how we filter it. Nature—the rising tide, the threatening sea, the transforming island—becomes the second field of learning, a living mirror of our limits and our choices. The discussion about the environment naturally finds its place in the Sustainable Development Goals

climate action, life in the water, life on land. Finally, through activities that connect their own summer experiences with cinematic discourse, students are encouraged to experiment, create and reflect, discovering that memory—like cinema—is always a field that is both personal and collective.