Juonikuvaukset(1)
“Beid, Hafsa, Melissa, Manessa, Mohammad… 25 children and their dedicated teacher. We wanted to find out who they are and become familiar with their skills and strategies, their joys, fears and hardships,” says director Ruth Beckermann. More than 60 percent of all children in Viennese primary schools do not speak German as their first language. At the same time, there is an acute shortage of teachers and supervisors. Such adverse conditions are the starting point of Ruth Beckermann’s documentary Favoriten, for which the Austrian filmmaker of The Waldheim Waltz and Mutzenbacher followed a Viennese primary school class for three years. The result is an astonishingly cheerful portrait of an unusual community. A film about teaching and learning and the often very surprising experiences somewhere in between. (Berlinale)
(lisää)Arvostelut (1)
This observational documentary depicting one class in a Viennese elementary school (we start in the second grade and finish in the fourth) demonstrates how inclusion should look in a multicultural group of students composed of the offspring of immigrants primarily from the Middle East (and the teacher herself is originally from Turkey). Rather than the content of the individual subjects, what’s important for the students is their lessons in the art of communication, empathy and mutual respect, in which the variety of cultural traditions and religious customs among the students stands out. A number of shots are almost too ordinary in places and you won’t remember most of the students’ names, but in the end, you will be surprised by how much the children have come to touch your heart over the course of two hours.
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Kuvagalleria (5)
Kuva © Ruth Beckermann Filmproduktion
