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The preference for a certain film genre may be one guideline when having to choose an appropriate film for one’s class. Further criteria of selection are the following (Thaler 2017a):

 linguistic complexity

 audio-visual comprehensibility

 language quantity

 didactic exploitability

 pedagogic concerns

 topical relevance

 length

 sound-vision relation

 aesthetic quality

An example that fulfils quite a lot of these criteria is outlined in Fig. 7.

Title	Splitscreen: A Love Story
Type	Split-screen story
Source	https://vimeo.com/25451551
Synopsis	Two lovebirds wake up on opposite sides of the world (New York, Paris), and start parallel journeys to meet each other. The story is told simultaneously through the eyes of the two characters, and each shot is meticulously matched to its transatlantic counterpart, e.g. a truck in Paris seamlessly becomes a New York City taxi.
Features	Split screenParis and New YorkNo text / dialoguesWinner of Nokia shorts competition 2011Completely shot on Nokia N8 mobile phone
Learning potential	Usable in various languagesAnalysis of cinematic devicesDescription, retelling, discussion

Fig. 7: Splitscreen: A Love Story