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On the Way to School (2013)

On the Way to School (2013)

Documentary
Release Date: 2013, September 25
Directors: Pascal Plisson
Countries: France
Production: Ymagis, Winds, Hérodiade, France 5, TV Escola, RTVC - Sistema de Medios Públicos, ETV
Cast: Noura Azzagagh, Zahira Badi, Carlito, Zineb Elkabi, Emmanuel J. Esther, Gabriel J. Esther, Micaela

Overview:

These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a better future and that is why, every day, they must set out on the long and perilous journey that will lead them to knowledge. Jackson and his younger sister from Kenya walk 15 kilometres each way through a savannah populated by wild animals; Carlito rides more than 18 kilometres twice a day with his younger sister, across the plains of Argentina; Zahira lives in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains who has an exhausting 22 kilometres walk along punishing mountain paths before she reaches her boarding school; Samuel from India sits in a clumsy DIY wheelchair and the 4 kilometres journey is an ordeal each day, as his two younger brothers have to push him all the way to school…

Keywords:

school france education colombia students brazil social documentary social & cultural documentary south africa public education documentary student documentary