Multi-award winning film from Bhutan. A young teacher in modern Bhutan dreams of becoming a singer in Australia. He accepts with a heavy heart to teach for a season in the civilization-removed village of Lunana, in the Himalayan highlands, with no water, electricity or amenities. There a whole world is revealed to him and what […]
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“The Other”
In the school of a mountainous village of Crete, in Patsideros, Heraklion, there are five Albanian and one Greek child. Xenophobia and racism appear inside and outside the school and concern the small village community. The teacher has just returned to his place of origin to offer his services to the school he himself attended. […]
The class (Entre les murs)
The Class is a 2008 French drama film directed by Laurent Cantet, based on the 2006 novel of the same name by François Bégaudeau. The novel is a semi-autobiographical account of Bégaudeau’s experiences as a French language and literature teacher in a middle school in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, particularly illuminating his struggles with […]
The teacher who let children dream
A film by Daniel Losset produced by French Public Television (2006) on the activities of the pioneering educator Celestin Freinet during the inter-war period. The film tells the story of Freinet’s efforts, against the establishment and reactionary society, to create an open and democratic school that let children dream and express themselves freely. […]