School Life
Synopsis
Directed and Written by: Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir
Starring: Zita Hanrot, Alban Ivanov, Liam Pierron
Producers: Nicolas Altmayer, Éric Altmayer and Jean-Rachid Kallouche
Logline:
In one of the poorest areas of Paris, a school counselor devotes herself to working with disadvantaged students, while facing challenges of her own.
Synopsis:
The new vice principal of a middle school in Parisian suburb Saint Denis, Samia (Zita Hanrot) is warned by her fellow teachers that the students are unmotivated and hard to discipline. She sees things differently, however, when she gets to know the students, especially Yanis (Liam Pierron), who’s sharp and driven but disillusioned by a world that seems to have turned its back on him and his family.
About SCHOOL LIFE:
Slam poet Grand Corps Malade and Mehdi Idir’s second collaboration after 2016’s Step by Step is both vivid institutional critique and lively ensemble piece—a rousing look at the importance of encouraging untapped potential despite institutional odds.
