Passion for Life (L ‘école buissonnière)

The film is about the pioneering ideas of the French educator Celestin Freinet. It is based on his wife’s notes and documents his early years as a young teacher in interwar France. In 1920, Freinet was appointed to the boys’ primary school in a small traditional village in Provence. Troubled by his students’ lack of interest, he decides to radically change his teaching methods and lay the foundations of a new educational concept, coming up against the conservative authorities of the region. The film has won dozens of international awards and was placed under the auspices of the United Nations as a “work of art that is a hymn to human rights”.