The passion of three teenagers struggling in the current of their first love as they find their way to freedom.
Invisible heritage – On equal opportunities in Germany
Documentary, Independent
2023
37min
0
In hardly any other industrialized country is the link between social background and educational success as pronounced as in Germany.
Kick It Like a Girl - Season 2
Documentary, Independent
2024
0 FSK
“Girls can't play soccer"—Pauline, Chayenne, Eriona, and Liv prove this is utter nonsense. A documentary series.
Air
Drama, Queer
2018
1h.32min
12 FSK
A poetic summer full of doubt, intimacy, and courage: Two girls fall in love and explore what freedom and love really mean.
Amal
Drama, Queer
2024
1h.47min
16 FSK
When a student comes out as queer, her teacher is forced to choose between conservative religion and individual freedom.
Something in the Air
Drama
2012
2h.5min
12 FSK
Paris, early 70s: torn between radical political commitment and personal ambitions, a young student is engulfed by the turmoil of the times.
Sweetheart
Drama
2022
16
Chanelle, a 38-year-old French teacher, enters into a relationship with her 17-year-old student Sandrick.
Wet Season
Drama
2019
1h.43min
16
In monsoon-soaked Singapore, a teacher's struggle for identity and connection unfolds through an unlikely and transformative bond.
Kick It Like a Girl - Season 1
Documentary, Independent
2024
0 FSK
"Girls can't play soccer" - Pauline, Chayenne, Eriona and Liv prove that this is obviously nonsense in this documentary series.
Numb
Drama
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.
Sex, Insta and Exams
Comedy
2020
16+
In the Ukrainian answer to "Euphoria", 11th graders are preparing for their final exams, making friends, falling in love, competing and quarreling.
1982
Drama, Action & Adventure
2020
1h.40min
12 FSK
While Wissam fights for his love, political tensions rise and the Israeli army invades Lebanon.
Brother's Keeper
Drama
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
Documentary
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
Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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
Drama
2008
2h.4min
0 FSK
An exceptional, docu-like film that explores the nuances of student-teacher relationships in a Parisian high school.
Stop-Zemlia
Drama, Queer
2022
2h.2min
12 FSK
Delightfully light-hearted and wonderfully honest coming-of-age story that flows seamlessly between fiction to documentary.
Dancing Quietly
Comedy, Drama
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
Drama
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
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
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
Documentary
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
Documentary
2020
2h.10min
16
Victims of their circumstances: The two best friends Emma and Anaïs face very different futures.
Pahokee
Documentary, Independent
2019
1h.52min
12
In Pahokee, a small town in the Florida Everglades, four teens experience the joys and heartbreaks of their last year in high school.
Swimming
Drama
2018
1h.41min
12 FSK
Teens Elisa and Anthea devise a sinister and destructive game as a way to sustain their mismatched friendship.
Sayounara
Drama
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
Drama
2020
1h.46min
16
Before the invasion of 2022 in the occupied Ukrainian city of Luhansk, two people challenge the new regime.
The Voice
Drama
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
Drama
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
Drama, Independent
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
Documentary, Independent
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
Documentary
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
Documentary, Independent
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
Documentary
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
Drama, Independent
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
Drama, Comedy
2016
1h.29min
12
Aurore is fed up with both school and her family until she gets the chance to join a rock band.
Jeremy
Kids & Family
2015
1h.33min
6 FSK
A heartwarming comedy about a highly gifted boy from a modest background whose family faces tough choices.
Kinders
Documentary, Independent
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
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
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
Drama, Independent
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 ...
Childhood
Documentary
2017
1h.30min
0 FSK
We accompany children in the idyll of a Norwegian Waldorf kindergarten as they play, do handicrafts and acquire skills.
The Angry Buddha
Documentary, Independent
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
Documentary, Independent
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
Drama
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
Drama
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
Drama
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
Comedy
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
Kids & Family, Shorts
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
Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater
2014
1h.24min
0 FSK
Greta Klingsberg, a cheerful Holocaust survivor, creates an incredible fascination with her stories.