School

  • Sex, Insta and Exams

    Sex, Insta and Exams

    2020

    16+

    In the Ukrainian answer to "Euphoria", 11th graders are preparing for their final exams, making friends, falling in love, competing and quarreling.


  • The Real Truth About the Fight

    The Real Truth About the Fight

    2023

    14min

    12

    Between school trouble, mean girl drama and catchy lyrics, teenage Lena tells us the real story behind the big fight. But what isn’t she telling us?


  • Marlon Brando

    Marlon Brando

    2021

    20min

    12

    Cas and Naomi are best friends, but when their future plans are seemingly different, their relationship wobbles.


  • Sweetheart

    Sweetheart

    2022

    16

    Chanelle, a 38-year-old French teacher, enters into a relationship with her 17-year-old student Sandrick.


  • Wet Season

    Wet Season

    2019

    1h.43min

    16

    In monsoon-soaked Singapore, a teacher's struggle for identity and connection unfolds through an unlikely and transformative bond.


  • Numb

    Numb

    2023

    1h.30min

    16+

    A riveting Iranian drama set in a unique kindergarten in Tehran, where the usual gender segregation of schools is yet to begin.


  • 1982

    1982

    2020

    1h.40min

    12 FSK

    While Wissam fights for his love, political tensions rise and the Israeli army invades Lebanon.


  • Brother's Keeper

    Brother's Keeper

    2021

    1h.25min

    16+

    A provincial boarding school for Kurdish boys becomes the flashpoint of a society riddled with power imbalances.


  • Candidates - Training in Stammheim

    Candidates - Training in Stammheim

    2020

    58min

    16+

    In Stammheim, right next to the old RAF prison, an educational center for future correctional officers is located next to the prison wall.


  • Girl Asleep

    Girl Asleep

    2015

    1h.17min

    16+

    A socially awkward teen falls asleep at her disastrous and unwanted 15th birthday party and enters a fantasy world.


  • The Class

    The Class

    2007

    2h.4min

    0 FSK

    An exceptional, docu-like film that explores the nuances of student-teacher relationships in a Parisian high school.


  • Stop-Zemlia

    Stop-Zemlia

    2022

    2h.2min

    12 FSK

    Delightfully light-hearted and wonderfully honest coming-of-age story that flows seamlessly between fiction to documentary.


  • Dancing Quietly

    Dancing Quietly

    2016

    1h.21min

    12 FSK

    An authentic and quietly directed personal love letter to all those whose greatest struggle is to just get out of bed every day.


  • Slalom

    Slalom

    2021

    1h.32min

    16

    Director Charlène Favier deals with her own experiences of abuse as a young junior athlete in this compelling and haunting drama.


  • Soul Kids

    Soul Kids

    2021

    1h.16min

    0

    In this music school, kids from Memphis, one of the USA’s most distressed cities, get a chance to become professional musicians.


  • MansFeld

    MansFeld

    2013

    1h.38min

    6 FSK

    A magical film about the mysteries of childhood and an old custom: In the village of MANSFELD, the ritual banishment of the old takes place every year


  • Adolescentes

    Adolescentes

    2020

    2h.10min

    16+

    Victims of their circumstances: The two best friends Emma and Anaïs face very different futures.


  • Pahokee

    Pahokee

    2019

    1h.50min

    16+

    In Pahokee, a small town in the Florida Everglades, four teens experience the joys and heartbreaks of their last year in high school.


  • Swimming

    Swimming

    2018

    1h.41min

    12 FSK

    Teens Elisa and Anthea devise a sinister and destructive game as a way to sustain their mismatched friendship.


  • Sayounara

    Sayounara

    2018

    1h.26min

    16+

    High school student Yuki's quiet life in a sleepy coastal town is shattered when her best friend Aya commits suicide.


  • The Forgotten

    The Forgotten

    2020

    1h.46min

    16+

    Before the invasion of 2022 in the occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, two people challenge the new regime.


  • The Voice

    The Voice

    2020

    1h.20min

    16+

    A sheltered teenager rebels against the strict rules, religious beliefs, and conniving classmates at his Catholic boarding school.


  • As I Am

    As I Am

    2020

    2h.5min

    16+

    Set in the rolling hills of the English countryside, Philophobia by Guy Davies takes a fresh look at the high school film genre.


  • The Pig

    The Pig

    2019

    1h.37min

    16+

    Rumen, a 13-year-old boy, is bullied by his classmates who taunt him and call him 'Pig'. Full of pent-up rage, he strikes back.


  • Clean Hands

    Clean Hands

    2019

    1h.41min

    16+

    A penniless family living on a rubbish dump is offered a house. The condition is that they send their children to school. Is this a fairy tale?


  • School of Babel

    School of Babel

    2013

    1h.31min

    16+

    For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed a group of students from all over the world who are all taking the same course to learn French.


  • #Uploading_Holocaust

    #Uploading_Holocaust

    2016

    1h.10min

    0

    Every year, tens of thousands of young Israelis travel to Poland to visit the Holocaust memorials – a digital-sociological observation.


  • Language Is a Love Story

    Language Is a Love Story

    2019

    1h.30min

    16+

    Ms. Louiseau is a dedicated French teacher at a language school in Montréal for adult immigrants. The names of her students* are as varied as her stories. Since ...


  • CaRabA - Life Without School

    CaRabA - Life Without School

    2019

    1h.29min

    0 FSK

    What would kids do if they didn't have to go to school? Five young people follow their interests in a world without compulsory education.


  • Miss Impossible

    Miss Impossible

    2016

    1h.29min

    16+

    Aurore is fed up with both school and her family until she gets the chance to join a rock band.


  • Jeremy

    Jeremy

    2015

    1h.33min

    6 FSK

    El Jeremías is a heartwarming comedy film about family love and the hard choices that come with opportunity.


  • Kinders

    Kinders

    2018

    1h.35min

    12

    A touching film about hidden potentials, creativity, integration, the power of music and the possible future of our society.


  • Making the Grade

    Making the Grade

    2017

    1h.22min

    16+

    Welcome to the world of the piano lesson. Every year teachers and students in Ireland prepare for graded musical exams. It can be fun for some students ...


  • Stations of the Cross

    Stations of the Cross

    2014

    1h.47min

    12 FSK

    Maria finds herself caught between two worlds: being a teenager and strict religious theachings of St. Pius XII. At school this 14-year-old girl has all ...


  • Barndom

    Barndom

    2017

    1h.30min

    0 FSK

    Barndom (Childhood) is about a Waldorf kindergarten near Oslo. The film follows the children for a whole year and observes them playing, doing handicrafts, ...


  • The Angry Buddha

    The Angry Buddha

    2016

    1h.38min

    16+

    A Buddhist high school for Roma youngsters in Hungary? A school experiment that seeks to overcome exclusion through education and spirituality.


  • The Audition

    The Audition

    2016

    1h.36min

    0 FSK

    687 applicants, 10 places, 9 examiners, 10 days time: Year after year the entrance examination at the Staatliche Schauspielschule Hannover is a challenge ...


  • Home Game

    Home Game

    2009

    22min

    12 FSK

    Wotan Wilke Möhring portrays the ethics teacher Andreas, whose secret life as a football hooligan is under threat of being uncovered.


  • Monsieur Lazhar

    Monsieur Lazhar

    2011

    1h.34min

    12 FSK

    Simon discovers that a teacher has hung herself in the classroom. Bachir Lazhar, 55, Algerian immigrant is the substitute teacher. The class goes through ...


  • Half Nelson

    Half Nelson

    2006

    1h.42min

    12 FSK

    Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan leads a secret life of addiction that most of his students ...


  • The French Kissers

    The French Kissers

    2008

    1h.24min

    12 FSK

    Over one million moviegoers in France alone lined up to see the movie: 14 year old Hervé and a friend want finally rock girls. Funny and hilarious romantic. Hervé ...


  • Julian

    Julian

    2011

    13min

    0 FSK

    Berlinale Short Film winner JULIAN by Matthew Moore tells of a fourth grader who feels the strong urge to tell the truth and who runs into trouble for ...


  • Brundibar Revisited

    Brundibar Revisited

    2014

    1h.24min

    0 FSK

    Greta Klingsberg, a cheerful Holocaust survivor, creates an incredible fascination with her stories.