Sur le chemin de l'école

Ils vivent aux quatre coins de la planète, et tous ont en commun la soif d’apprendre. D‘instinct, ils savent que leur survie et leur bonheur dépendent du savoir, donc de l’école. Ce sont les héros de Sur le chemin de l‘école», un film documentaire d’aventures qui croise le destin de petits écoliers contraints d’affronter mille difficultés pour atteindre leur école. En s’engageant sur cet étonnant chemin des écoliers, ils vont se détacher de leur enfance et se lancer dans un parcours semé d’embûches et de surprises. Ce film est le récit du voyage initiatique qui va bouleverser leur vie.

Vado a scuola

Il film narra le storie di quattro bambini, provenienti da angoli del pianeta differenti, ma uniti dalla stessa sete di conoscenza. Dalle savane sterminate del Kenya, ai sentieri tortuosi delle montagne dell'Atlante in Marocco, dal caldo soffocante del sud dell'India, ai vertiginosi altopiani della Patagonia, i quattro protagonisti, Jackson, Zahira, Samuel e Carlito sanno che la loro sopravvivenza, dipenderà dalla conoscenza e dall'istruzione scolastica.

On the Way to School

The children depicted in this film live in the four corners of the globe and all share the same desire to learn. They've understood that only education will allow them to improve their lives, and it's for this reason that, each day, they set out on highly risky journeys, through extraordinary landscapes, on their quest for knowledge.

11-year-old Jackson lives in Kenya and, every morning and evening, he and his younger sister walk nine and a half miles across the savannah populated by wild animals.
12-year-old Zahira lives in the steep Atlas Mountains. It takes her and her two friends an exhausting day of walking to reach their boarding school.
13-year-old Samuel lives in India. The two and half miles he must traverse each day are a challenge because his legs are paralyzed. His two younger brothers push his makeshift wheelchair for more than an hour in order to get to school.
11-year-old Carlito crosses the Patagonian plains on horseback, accompanied by his younger sister. Each day the pair travel 11 miles back and forth, no matter the weather.
On the Way to School allows us to share the extraordinary daily lives of these children, whose determination coupled with a dream leads them down a path that we have all taken, but never quite in this way.