School

  • Genesis

    Genesis

    Drama, Romance

    2019

    2h.10min

    16

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Sweetheart

    Drama

    2022

    16

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


  • Wet Season

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Adolescentes

    Documentary

    2020

    2h.10min

    16

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


  • Pahokee

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    #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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    Brundibar Revisited

    Documentary, Music, Dance, Theater

    2014

    1h.24min

    0 FSK

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