School. Remember that? When life was all crayons and small glass bottles of milk and the winters were colder and summers dragged out for years..... aaaaaah. Aside from that great scene in Fanny And Alexander when the dad tells his kids the history of a green chair, this beautifully made documentary is about as powerful an evocation of childhood you can get on film. The crew manages not to intrude on the class and as a result we get brief sincere glimpses of children at their most open, childish find out more...

A fly-on-the-wall type drama, based around the real life experiences of a teacher observing incidents in a multi-ethnic Parisian class full of teenagers. We watch the pupils, the other teachers' summations of them, their projects and their learning (or lack thereof, as the case may be), meet their parents, and we are, as any teacher might be, continually wrong-footed by them. 'The Class' is an intelligent, polemic film that will undoubtedly provoke you into a re-assessment of your opinions on th find out more...

In an attempt to demonstrate what life is like under a dictatorship a high school teacher comes up with an experiment to explain to his students how totalitarian governments work. Within a few days, what began with harmless notions like discipline and community, builds into a real movement: ‘The Wave'. As the students' boundaries are pushed things begin to spiral out of control and this newly found cult starts to take on a life of its own, with disturbing and tragic results. Based on a real-life find out more...