Enquêtes De Région - Les Normands Aux Cotés Des Ukrainiens

The documentary's title translates as "to be and to have", the two auxiliary verbs in the French language. It is about a primary school in the commune of Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson, Puy-de-Dôme, France, the population of which is just over 200. The school has one small class of mixed ages (from four to twelve years), with a dedicated teac...

Runtime

1h 44m

Director

Nicolas Philibert

Cast

Georges Lopez, Olivier, Guillaume

Follows the lives of students and their teachers based on the director's childhood memories. The events of the film take places in the actual boarding school called "Gymnasium Canisianum", founded in 1946 by a German catholic priest.

Director

Heinrich Breloer

Cast

Ernst Jacobi, Dietmar Bär, Ben Becker

A documentary about a teacher who sends a group of pupils out of the classroom when one of them does not own up to talking behind the master's back.

Runtime

53m

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Cast

Mehdi Azadbakht, Mohammadreza Barati, Hedayat Matin Daftari

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 p...

Runtime

1h 15m

Cast

Jeff Bridges, Dale Chihuly, Jamie Carpenter

A Cincinnati public school fights to break the cycle of poverty in its Urban Appalachian neighborhood, where senior Raven Gribbins aims to become the first in her troubled family to graduate and go to college. When Principal Craig Hockenberry's job is threatened, it becomes clear it's a make-or-break year for both of them.

Runtime

56m

Director

Amy Scott

Cast

Craig Hockenberry, Raven Gribbins