On the Way to School

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  • NR
  • Genre(s):Documentary
  • Release year: 2013
  • Running time: 77 min
These children live around the world but share the same desire to learn. They understood that only education will improve their life, and that is why every day in the incredible scenery, they embark on a journey that will take high risk to find...read more
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These children live around the world but share the same desire to learn. They understood that only education will improve their life, and that is why every day in the incredible scenery, they embark on a journey that will take high risk to find out. Jackson, 10, lives in Kenya and traveled fifteen kilometers morning and evening with his sister in the middle of the bush and wildlife ... Zahira, 11, lives in the rugged mountains of the Atlas Mountains, and it is a day of grueling work that awaits to join his internship with her two friends ... Samuel, 11 years old, lives in India and every day, the eight kilometers he must accomplish is a test because he did not use his legs. His two younger brothers grow his wheelchair tinkered to school ... This is a horse that Carlito, 11, crosses the plains of Patagonia on over twenty-five kilometers. Taking his sister with him, he accomplishes this feat twice per day, regardless of the time ... ON THE WAY TO SCHOOL immerses us in this extraordinary daily alongside those children whose will in the service of a dream the guide on a path that we all borrowed, but never this way. People often wonder what planet we leave to our children, but what children we leave the planet?

Original Release

07/07/2013

US Release

02/06/2015

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Cast

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Directors

Pascal Plisson

Writers

Pascal Plisson, Marie-Claire Javoy

Cast

Producers

Editors

Sylvie Lager, Sarah Anderson

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