Collège
1997
France
133 minutes
French
For five weeks in November and December 1995, the filmmaker followed life at the Paul Vaillant-Couturier junior secondary school at Champigny-sur-Marne. Although it is a standard school, it also has a special SEGPA section (General and Adapted Professional Education Stream), as well as a class for non-French-speaking children, known as the ‘NFs’. Twenty seven nationalities were present in the school at the time of shooting. Filming school activities, lessons in the different sections, professional guidance interviews, the search for training courses, the annual cross-country race and administrative jobs, the filmmaker gives a direct uncommented account of the current challenges facing state schools.
Production :
Silvina Landsmann; Ideale Audience International
Silvina Landsmann; Ideale Audience International
Distribution :
Ideale Audience International
Ideale Audience International
Editing :
Charlotte Tourrès
Charlotte Tourrès
Sound :
Guillaume Valleix; Jérôme Thiault; Christophe Allaphilippe; Frédéric Bouvier
Guillaume Valleix; Jérôme Thiault; Christophe Allaphilippe; Frédéric Bouvier
Photography :
Silvina Landsmann
Silvina Landsmann