16 May 2019
German Class
Ute Vecchio has two years to prepare children who have just arrived from other countries for the German school system. The challenges she faces are just as diverse as the cultures the children originate from.
Deux Cancres
A father films the daily efforts and struggle of his son to do his homework. Completing the school tasks is an agony that oppresses the creative passion of a restless, imaginative boy. His father gets deeply involved so he can understand what the problem is, and spends an hour every day to help him with his homework. Days, weeks, years go by, and we observe how the eagerness to learn clashes with the ghost of school dropout. The endearing relationship between father and son, a real rollercoaster of emotions, reveals with a sense of humour the contradictions in the French education system.
Top Billed Cast
Similar movies
German Class German Class Pilchuck: A Dance with Fire Pilchuck: A Dance with Fire 28 Mar 2015
Pilchuck: A Dance with Fire
The Pilchuck Glass School outside Seattle has been going for 43 years. Started by Dale Chihuly, when glass in America was at its infancy. This school is responsible for making the US Studio Glass movement what it is today. It's an international institution now, bringing students from all over the world. It started in 1971, during the peace movements, Flower Power and war in Vietnam This documentary tells the story of it's beginnings, and how it's now made the Pacific NW, the largest glass art center in the world.
L'école en actes 
L'école en actes 24 Sep 2024
L'école en actes
No overview found
Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students 
Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students 28 Aug 2025
Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students
A major figure in contemporary feminism and the first Frenchwoman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, Annie Ernaux is seen by many as a source of individual and collective emancipation, blending the intimate with the universal. Filmmaker Claire Simon has devoted an original portrait to her, giving students and teachers a voice.
He Named Me Malala 
He Named Me Malala 12 Sep 2015
He Named Me Malala
A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.
The Good Canadian 
The Good Canadian 30 Sep 2025
The Good Canadian
The world knows the image of the good Canadian. But what if there was a dark secret behind a national identity? THE GOOD CANADIAN exposes the truth behind the idea of a True North strong and free. In this unflinching and eye-opening documentary, directors Leena Minifie and David Paperny move us through the corridors of systemic inequity, from the Indian Act to residential schools, to modern-day family separation. Fusing shocking footage with detailed interviews with experts, advocates, whistleblowers and politicians, THE GOOD CANADIAN challenges national myth-making, while offering Canadians the chance to forge a new identity from the truth.
Distinction 
Distinction 11 Oct 2018
Distinction
Two high school students from very different backgrounds participate in a musical with mentally disabled children, which eventually leads to the realisation of their dreams and aspirations.
The Thing That Happened The Thing That Happened 23 Sep 2011
The Thing That Happened
'The Thing That Happened' is a twenty-two-minute documentary short that profiles the Hope North Secondary and Vocational school on northern Uganda. Hope North struggles on a shoe-string budget to provide a home and an education for children displaced by the civil war between the Lord's Resistance Army (L.R.A.) and the Uganda People's Defense Forces (U.D.P.F.) The students are a mix of former child soldiers, orphans and the abjectly poor. Mitigating the horrific effects of the war and focusing them on their future is a monumental task
Preschool to Prison 
Preschool to Prison 15 Jul 2023
Preschool to Prison
Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance policies are used to justify suspension and arrests that set up a pathway to send children of color and children with special needs from school to prison. Children are being suspended, restrained, dragged, physically manhandled, and subsequently arrested for minor offenses such as throwing candy on a school bus. These personal accounts from people affected by the school-to-prison pipeline give riveting tales about the generational impact on society.
Stolen Education 
Stolen Education 28 Apr 2013
Stolen Education
"Stolen Education" documents the untold story of Mexican-American school children who challenged discrimination in Texas schools in the 1950s and changed the face of education in the Southwest.
Il Centro per i Giovani - volti, racconti ed esperienze sotto la mascherina 
Il Centro per i Giovani - volti, racconti ed esperienze sotto la mascherina 12 Nov 2021
Il Centro per i Giovani - volti, racconti ed esperienze sotto la mascherina
No overview found
Throbbing Gristle: Live at Oundle School, 16th March 1980 
Throbbing Gristle: Live at Oundle School, 16th March 1980 01 Jan 1980
Throbbing Gristle: Live at Oundle School, 16th March 1980
"This video cassette contains a recording of a live performance by TG at Oundle School. The audience, apart one or two members of the staff, was composed completely of school boys between about 8 and 18. In addition to the single camera recording of the gig, certain visual information from the files of Industrial Records Ltd. has been included. Like the TG sound itself, the content and quality of this recording cannot and should not be compared with conventional commercial recordings."
2040 
2040 23 May 2019
2040
A three year self-described labour of love, 2040 takes the form of a visual letter from the filmmaker to his four-year-old daughter Velvet, showing her what the year 2040 could look like “if we simply embraced the best solutions that exist today.”
In the Garden of Sounds 
In the Garden of Sounds 28 Oct 2010
In the Garden of Sounds
«Nel giardino dei suoni» («In The Garden of Sounds») is a touching, poetic exploration of the relationship between mind, body and sound, and a cinematic journey to the borders of communication. Nicola Bellucci tells the extraordinary story of Wolfgang Fasser, a blind musician and soundscape artist who works with severely handicapped children, helping them to find their place in a world not made for them. On his own way into the darkness, Fasser discovered the world of sounds, a parallel universe to our visual world. His far-reaching explorations of sound’s effect on mind and body led him to the field of music therapy.
The Tamer The Tamer 01 Jan 1978
The Tamer
Life, customs and the fight for survival in the desolate wastelands of the Venezuelan plains.
Doués et oubliés : maman, quand est-ce que j'apprends? 
Doués et oubliés : maman, quand est-ce que j'apprends? 03 Oct 2016
Doués et oubliés : maman, quand est-ce que j'apprends?
No overview found
Newtown 
Newtown 24 Jan 2016
Newtown
A look at how the community of Newtown, Connecticut came together in the aftermath of the largest mass shooting of schoolchildren in American history.
De Panzazo 
De Panzazo 24 Feb 2012
De Panzazo
Panzazo! It reflects the reality of education in Mexico and demonstrates that Mexican society panzazo passes in an exclusionary system in which no lessons for life are achieved. We see in this movie moms, dads, principals, teachers, officials, union representatives and opinion leaders to draw a global picture that does not allow indifference. The data, interviews and what the students filmed with handheld cameras give rise to indignation and intelligent to realize the part that touches everyone contribute. The project ran for three years entering the reality of the students and their families, capturing the daily dynamics of schools in such diverse parts of the country such as Ciudad Juarez, the interior of Yucatan, Morelia, the mountains of Chiapas and Guerrero, as well as Naucalpan and Iztapalapa in the metropolitan area of Mexico City. EDIT: To clarify, "de panzazo" means "just squeaking through."
Marked by Darkness 
Marked by Darkness 11 Nov 1959
Marked by Darkness
Short, evocative documentary on the education of blind and partially sighted children.
Inside Wrestling School 
Inside Wrestling School 20 Aug 2000
Inside Wrestling School
A look at one of the most popular forms of entertainment in the United States, professional wrestling.