School Movies

This silent film documents a day at Washington School, a Black elementary school located at 1025 Washington, Topeka, Kansas. The film follows each...

This short film delves into the Peking Opera club of the Fourth Primary School of Donggaodi in Fengtai District, Beijing, to explore what Peking...

The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustrates the theatre of social life in Soviet Poland...

Devastation of a Welsh-speaking community: Capel Celyn village and farms of the Tryweryn Valley disappear beneath the waters of a reservoir so...

A student named Kemi O has to understand the hardship being the only black student.

In a school marked by silences and veiled prejudices, a group of Black students finds in the Black Well-Being Circle a space for listening,...

After losing his job on the first day of school, an idealistic teacher attempts to get rehired by locking his students in the classroom and forcing...

In the early summer of 1980, eleven-year-old Hanna and the rest of her childhood band aim to bring criminals to justice when a threat to destroy the...

Short, evocative documentary on the education of blind and partially sighted children.

A young man has a secret crush on his teacher and rather than admit his feelings to anyone, he takes his own life. He tells his "last secret" in a...

As if starting Junior year wasn’t hard enough, try doing it at a new school without any friends. For 16 year old Sophie fitting in proves to be...

An artistic animated short showing the life in secondary school.

In this first project of Kim Longinotto while she was a student at Englands National School of Television and Film she filmed the daily life in a...

12-year-old Jewish girl Dinka studies at Machon (Jewish Orthodox orphanage). Lone middle-aged Hana, the Machon headmistress, exerts her best efforts...