For two months, the third-grade students at Cēsis’ New Primary School have been plan-ning and organizing their own graduation ceremony. Throughout this process, the teach-ers are only there to help, trusting in the children’s wisdom, responsibility and ability to organize themselves, make decisions and follow through. Preparations for the celebration involve all the school subjects, turning the school into a place of exciting discovery, where children learn by doing things that are important to them. They enthusiastically live life in the here and now, in all its difficulties and joy.

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"If a person doesn't go to church anymore, then the church should go to them," says Rinalds, a calm,...
A documentary about a vision care school that enables visually impaired children to learn the skills...
The purpose of Rise Above the Mark, narrated by Peter Coyote, is to educate the general public about...

A documentary about a teacher who sends a group of pupils out of the classroom when one of them does...
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Over the course of the summer until her graduation, with changes she can't control but also being pr...

Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment o...

In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be c...

One day in a kindergarten classroom at Van Horne Public School in Montreal. The teacher encourages c...
A semi-dramatized documentary about the first Slovak grammar school in Revúca.
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World renowned journalist, and award-winning filmmaker Rahiem Shabazz presents the third installment...

In their final year at Muncie's Southside High School, a group of seniors hurtles toward maturity wi...

The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustra...