Là-bas: A Criminal Education

Sentimental Education centers on the unique relationship between Áurea, a lonely 40 year old teacher, and a young man she has just met by chance – one of these encounters which mythology and literature are full of. A delicate soul who finds itself attracted to a beauty that seems to demand, disturb and move her. That shakes her up entirely. During the days following their first conversation, she will expose all her feelings through classes in which he will let himself be carried away. Until an unusual episode from the past is revealed and changes everything.

Seonghee, who takes care of the disabled, visits Hyeonmok’s house newly assigned to her. Hyeonmok’s mom is a severely disabled person who lies unconscious all day long. Seonghee wonders how she can help.

In 2018 the 1st & 2nd EPA.L. Agia Paraskevi relocates to a new state of the art building after 20+ years of being in an unsuitable and ready to fall apart one. The situation got so bad that the students where literally hanging out with the chickens next to the building and as the principal of the school council told us they actually felt like they themselves where the chickens. The construction of the new building was held up since the original contractor "ran out of money" and thus the building was abandoned mid construction, the building stayed in this stage for more than 5 years where it was looted and vandalized. The situation had reached an impasse and so the students decided to step up and speak directly to the mayor resulting in getting heard by the secondary school administration, so years later a second contractor was hired to complete this project and finally put into operation.

In one elementary school children are told to learn Julian Tuwim’s poem “Science” by heart as homework. The poetic phrase is sometimes incomprehensible, some words require explanation, but parents come to their aid. Unfortunately, not all metaphors can be explained in an unambiguous way and poetry clashes with the prose of life, in particular when a football match of Legia Warszawa is broadcast on television. Some will get Bs, some will fail, but everyone will learn something from this lesson.

Farocki revisits the executive trainer from his earlier "Die Schulung" (Indoctrination, 1987), this time holding a seminar with ex-GDR employees of a West German construction company.

The Education of Auma Obama is a captivating and intimate portrait of the U.S. president's older half-sister, who embodies a post-colonial, feminist identity.

At the request of her uncle, Tak-yi, who has been managing the Youth Center for several months, is an aspiring priest. Tak is constantly worried about the unidentified stray girl who wanders around him. I don't want to meet him, but I feel sorry for him after seeing him get hungry and sleep on the road. Tak decides to bring a girl into the house for a while to protect the girl who won't give her a room even in a shabby inn. The girl seems to have been neglected on the street from a very young age. Tak-ni names the girl Kkot-nim and does her best as a guardian, but Kkom-nim begins to know what to do with Tak-i in order to eat the meat dish.

Documentary about Chinese higher education: the pressure to get into state-sponsored schools, and the marketing of private colleges that may not provide the education they promise.

The film addresses the paternalism towards Egypt’s rural population by juxtaposing a documentary narrative about a successful educational initiative with resentful commentary that turns out to be a satire of the “wise man” of the title. While the imagery presents the young teachers as modern heroes, the commentator escalates into ever greater polemical tirades against them.

Learning magic is a waste of time! That's what a half-educated wizard with a homemade diploma thinks. He conjured up all sorts of oddities: a pink goat, an elephant that looked like an iron... It's good that a real wizard came to the aid of the would-be sorcerer in time.

A young man in a leotard leads a group of animals in a sumo wrestling match. The bear is the final victor of all the animals, but then loses when he must face Kintaro.

A depressed son and his militant father go through a psychological and physical journey in an extreme attempt to save the son from his suicidal tendencies.

A math teacher is hired to teach on a school with serious disciplinary issues. He will face the bullying that a group of student suffer.The feeling of impotence for the unjustified practices will take Jorge to corrupt he's own moral.

Three generations of teachers. Three stories of dedication, struggle, and inspiration interweaved. Iah, Espie, and Gennie will prove that being an educator does not end inside the four walls of their classrooms.

The great men of letters and military conquest pose on subsequent pages of a very special history book.

Portrait of a Romanian bourgeois family.

The author Carl-Göran Ekerwald has written more than 50 books. At the age of 87, a new chapter in his life begins when he meets the journalist and author Sigrid Kahle. Ekerwald is a man of eductation and lust.

After becoming the professor's human BDSM play thing, Yuna yearns for a more traditional life. She is now happily married, but still there is something deep inside her that makes it difficult to keep up her vanilla life. Eventually, she returns to the professors estate to feel the sensual grip of the rope again.

The exams are close, the school year is coming to an end for Peipei, a young artist aspirant of a high school of Henan Province, a poor district of China. Abandoned by her parents, scapegoat of her classmates and teachers, this "wild flower" has never conformed to the rules of the institution and has trouble finding her place.