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| Icarus Films | Release Date: December 13, 2017 |
Starring:
Abdullah Aljbawi, Ayham Kokash, Branche Jovanovski, Haya Khleif, Jorj Gharam, Kiet Engel, Leanne Yahyaowi, Maksem Gharam, Rama Kokash, Rianna Pereira Clemente di Sousa
Summary:
Immigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don't understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.
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Dec 11, 2017
Dec 12, 2017
The result is a lovely, upbeat, even life-affirming film. It's a work which certainly doesn't soft-pedal the less appealing sides of children's behavior, but shows that empathy, given appropriate circumstances and resources, can be taught just as effectively as arithmetic and spelling.
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Dec 12, 2017
Dec 12, 2017
Dec 12, 2017
As in Nicolas Philibert’s similar French documentary “To Be and to Have” (2002), the relative absence of conflict in the interactions between a seasoned teacher and wonderful pupils grows tedious at feature length, and there is — presumably by design — relatively little meat on this documentary’s bones.
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