A teacher in a disadvantaged community rebels against a system that neglects many of its vulnerable students. Gloria Merriex transforms into a trailblazer, using rap, dance and other innovations to enable children to thrive in school—and beyond.
A papercut stopmotion animation in which human Travelers from 2053 travel 30 years into the past to warn "foundlings" of the future that awaits them. The story follows Jonah and his Traveler, learning about the possible chaotic future that could happen if such measures are not applied.
A documentary-short on the life of Ira Sanders, a commodity trader turned educator whose first-hand experiences on 9/11 greatly influence his life.
After moving to a new apartment, Maxwell reflects on all the different types of changes we go through in life and the different ways that they can make you feel.
Revisit photographs created by Kentucky school children in the 1970s and the place where their photos were made. Photographer and artist Wendy Ewald, who guided the students in making their visionary photographs, returns to Kentucky and learns how the lives and visions of her former students have changed.
A rookie English teacher named Han Gi-tak goes into Byulli Island, a rural island village, to look for a easy money job that will satisfy his resume. Together with experienced math lecturer Jeong Seok of three years, they teach special children who are a challenge.
John and Amanda teach Latin, English and guitar at a fantastical stately home-turned-school. Nearly 50-year careers are drawing to a close for the pair who have become legends with the mantra: “Reading! ’Rithmetic! Rock ’n’ roll!” But for pupil and teacher alike, leaving is the hardest lesson.
Joanne is a model, a teacher, a fighter, a chameleon. But when her private semi-nude photos went public, this woman of many talents came to be simply known as 'the topless teacher'. Together with her former student, artist Simon Fujiwara, she seeks to reclaim her image through social media and branding tactics. Shifting between advertisement and portraiture, this meta-narrative on identity manages to infuse playfulness in its layered commentary on who you are and how you're seen.
This episode from the Czech Journal series examines how a military spirit is slowly returning to our society. Attempts to renew military training or compulsory military service and in general to prepare the nation for the next big war go hand in hand with society’s fear of the Russians, the Muslims, or whatever other “enemies”. This observational flight over the machine gun nest of Czech militarism becomes a grotesque, unsettling military parade. It can be considered not only to be a message about how easily people allow themselves to be manipulated into a state of paranoia by the media, but also a warning against the possibility that extremism will become a part of the regular school curriculum.
Recounts the epic of Vincennes Experimental University Center, from its creation after the events of May 68 until its demolition in the summer of 1980. To talk about Vincennes is to relive unique ten years of intense intellectual and political extravaganza, educational and artistic inventiveness, utopias, hopes, and betrayals that marked the history in a unique place, the forest with the eponymous name.
Christian, a 20-yr-old swim teacher, is having a hard time recovering from an incident where one his students almost drowns on his watch.
Di ritorno da una lezione, un professore di filologia è sottoposto a un interrogatorio da parte della moglie, che diffida del suo approccio pedagogico, della sua Accademia delle Muse la quale, ispirandosi a riferimenti classici, dovrebbe concorrere a rigenerare il mondo attraverso la poesia. Questo progetto controverso innesca un carosello di situazioni dominate dalla parola e dal desiderio.
It's dark times for Ethan Collins, a severely depressed, foul-mouthed elementary school teacher whose wife's recent infidelity and departure have left him questioning everything in his life.
Nel 1998 lo sceneggiatore Keith Michaels era all'apice della fama: autore di un film di successo che gli era valso l'Oscar, una bellissima moglie, un figlio, un grande senso dell'umorismo e un fascino tutto British. Quindici anni dopo Keith, sulla soglia dei 50, non scrive da tempo, è divorziato, sull'orlo del lastrico. Lontano da Hollywood, si trasferisce per tenere un corso di sceneggiatura in un'università fuori New York, a Binghamton. L'idea di insegnare e di lasciare la città non lo alletta per nulla, ma l'uomo spera di tirar su un po' di soldi e riacquistare un po' di autostima, magari seducendo qualche giovane studentessa. Mai e poi mai avrebbe immaginato di incontrare una donna, madre single, che cambierà la sua vita e, soprattutto, di appassionarsi così tanto all'insegnamento, che si rivelerà una vera e propria seconda chance per diventare un uomo migliore.
Alberto Manzi ha 20 anni e vuole fare il maestro. Riesce ad avere la cattedra soltanto in un carcere minorile e successivamente viene trasferito in una vera e propria scuola, che però gli sembra inadeguata. Nel frattempo la Rai, tra le sue prime trasmissioni, decide di realizzarne una per educare milioni di italiani.
Direct cinema pioneer Frederick Wiseman takes an in-depth look at the preeminent American university during a fall semester that saw a vigorous debate taking place over tuition hikes, budget cuts, and the future of higher education in the United States.
Victor Sluzhkin signs on as a teacher of geography in a secondary school in his native Perm (in the Urals) and gets lost in a haze of hard vodka, desperate love for a nymphet-like student and the stress of educating teenagers. Geographer, as the students immediately dub Sluzhkin, attempts to escape from the grueling, dull, stultifying reality of Russia's provincial life in a rafting tour to the Urals. Accompanied by wild, adventure-seeking adolescents, faced with the numerous grim surprises of the nature, Geographer is poised to find himself and his own truth.
'Selam' is a Turkish movie that tells the impressive stories of three Turkish teachers who are idealists working at schools opened by Turkish entrepreneurs on three different continents and in three different countries: Afghanistan, Senegal, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. This story is based on true events that has been in progress for more than 20 years in which a number of young people in love of peace and humanity leave their countries to teach, help and live in countries they have never heard of before. This is the story of people who live for their ideals and other people before themselves, and who leave their families, loves, friends, countries behind. They set on this pet just with the inspiration of the words which said "A couple of eyes are waiting for you here, but thousands of eyes are waiting in faraway lands." They had sacrifice and kindness in their bags, love in their hearts and a smiling Selam (greetings) in their tongues. - Written by Akif Okumus
Nel 1874 Konrad Koch arriva in una scuola tedesca per insegnare inglese. Per attirare l'attenzione dei suoi alunni, insegnerà loro a giocare a calcio parlando in inglese. Questo gioco otterrà lo scopo di far dimenticare ai ragazzi le differenze sociali, la dura disciplina del sistema educativo tedesco dell'epoca e diventerà, col tempo, una grande passione per tutti. I genitori degli alunni non sono però d'accordo, e impediranno continuamente ai ragazzi di giocare ostacolando il professore.