On the Way to School
On the Way to School

On the Way to School

6.8(103 votes)
2013
1h 17m
Documentary

These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a better future and that is why, every day, they must set out on the long and perilous journey that will lead them to knowledge. Jackson and his younger sister from Kenya walk 15 kilometres each way through a savannah populated by wild animals; Carlito rides more than 18 kilometres twice a day with his younger sister, across the plains of Argentina; Zahira lives in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains who has an exhausting 22 kilometres walk along punishing mountain paths before she reaches her boarding school; Samuel from India sits in a clumsy DIY wheelchair and the 4 kilometres journey is an ordeal each day, as his two younger brothers have to push him all the way to school…

Production

Ymagis, Winds, Hérodiade

Cast

Noura Azzagagh

Noura Azzagagh

Self

Zahira Badi

Zahira Badi

Self

Carlito

Carlito

Self

Zineb Elkabi

Zineb Elkabi

Self

Emmanuel J. Esther

Emmanuel J. Esther

Self

Gabriel J. Esther

Gabriel J. Esther

Self

Micaela

Micaela

Self

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