On the Way to School
"We often forget how lucky we are to be going to school". The four main characters in this moving documentary make their own luck, defying all sorts of adversities to stake their claim on a better future, the promise of education, no matter how far they have to go to get it.
"We often forget how lucky we are to be going to school". The four main characters in this moving documentary make their own luck, defying all sorts of adversities to stake their claim on a better future, the promise of education, no matter how far they have to go to get it.
11-year-old Jackson wakes up at 5:30am every morning to cross 15km of Kenyan savannah with his little sister, avoiding elephant attacks. Carlito rides his horse with his own sister, crossing rocky planes and Patagonian hills. In Morocco, Zahira and her friends go up and down mountains, while Samuel is counting on his little brother to push his makeshift wheelchair through ravaged streets and Indian marshland.
Images that take your breath away and exotic locations that wouldn't look out of place in the most impressive National Geographic documentary, but most importantly moving examples of triumph of the human spirit on the quest for knowledge. Even if it comes in the form of Lilliputian wannabe intellectuals. Ch.L.
on the way to school / στο δρόμο για το σχολείο... από NyxtesPremieras
Πρωτότυπος τίτλος / Original title
Sur le Chemin de l'Ecole
Σκηνοθεσία / Director
Pascal Plisson
Σενάριο / Screenwriter
Marie-Claire Javoy, Pascal Plisson
Φωτογραφία / DoP
Simon Watel
Μουσική / Music
Laurent Ferlet
Μοντάζ / Editor
Sarah Anderson, Sylvie Lager
Εμφανίζονται / Featuring
Noura Azzagagh, Zahira Badi Carlito, Zineb Elkabi
Emmanuel J. Esther, Gabriel J. Esther
Γαλλία, Κίνα, Ν. Αφρική, Βραζιλία, Κολομβία / France, China, S.Africa, Brazil, Colombia
2013
Εγχρωμο / Color
DCP
77'
Γαλλικά / French
