Hindi Medium

Mita and Raj Batra, an affluent couple from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk, are grappling with getting their daughter admission into an English medium school. But there is one big problem. Their zubaan is Hindi, and the elitist snobs won’t let the Hindi speaking hoi-polloi fit in.

A Pencil In Need of Sharpening

Ronnel, who is an out-of-school youth and a laborer at a factory in Laguna, is one of the participants of a program for OSYs in an academic institution. When an opportunity knocks, he finds himself choosing between focusing on his present or building his future.

Divided By Three

On a Sunday morning approaching noon at a traffic light intersection in Jakarta, Alvin (7), Riki (7), and Jaki (7), three young silver buskers, were doing their usual routine. A Korean tourist gave them a 50,000 won Korean currency note. However, due to their limited education and knowledge, they had to figure out how to divide the money equally. They tried various methods, but all failed, until they finally met Arif (23), a mathematics teacher.

Heart and Her Children

Story of the early maturity of a boy, which confirms the old pedagogical truth that life, joy and trouble that man carries with himself, are best teachers.

Younost, une jeunesse russe

Yeidhavan

After his sister’s dreams are shattered, an angry youngster takes on fraudsters who have commercialised the education sector for their selfish needs.

The Perfect Score

Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.

Zur Hölle mit den Paukern

Pepe Nietnagel and his fellow students of the Mommsen school come up with all kinds of ideas to get out of doing any actual school work. This includes simulating suicides, setting off the air-raid sirens and abusing the school director's new broadcasting system. They succeed in sending their teacher to a sanatorium and get a replacement that turns out to not be so bad after all.

The School of Tomorrow

The correlation between social class and school performance is a major issue across the world. This miniseries is an attempt to go beyond ideological approaches of the problem. It is a pragmatic, scientific, and international exploration of education techniques. Two thirds of students will hold jobs that have not been invented yet and 47% of current jobs are expected to be replaced by machines.

School Town King

It follows two teenage rappers in Bangkok who use their musical talent to navigate their difficult circumstances.

Deux Cancres

A father films the daily efforts and struggle of his son to do his homework. Completing the school tasks is an agony that oppresses the creative passion of a restless, imaginative boy. His father gets deeply involved so he can understand what the problem is, and spends an hour every day to help him with his homework. Days, weeks, years go by, and we observe how the eagerness to learn clashes with the ghost of school dropout. The endearing relationship between father and son, a real rollercoaster of emotions, reveals with a sense of humour the contradictions in the French education system.

On ne naît pas féministe

Discovering your womanhood at 33 when you're a feminist is like exploring a new continent as an adventurer. It sparks a desire to embark on a journey, to understand the world around us, to search for ourselves, over and over again. To engage in the new sexual revolution and trace the roots of sexism and gender, questioning whether sexual education in France can prevent future generations from the patriarchy. But are we ready to deconstruct everything?

The Making of a Japanese

Intimately following 1st and 6th graders at a public elementary school in Tokyo, we observe kids learning the traits necessary to become part of Japanese society.

Lessons from the Air

Behind-the-scenes documentary about the making and broadcasting of pedagogical radio shows on the BBC.

A palabra xusta

He Named Me Malala

A look at the events leading up to the Taliban's attack on the young Pakistani school girl, Malala Yousafzai, for speaking out on girls' education and the aftermath, including her speech to the United Nations.