The Substitute

In lyrical switches between the present and the past, Taeko contemplates the arc of her life, and wonders if she has been true to the dreams of her...

In one of the poorest areas of Paris, a school counselor devotes herself to working with disadvantaged students, while facing challenges of her own.

Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's...

Twenty-six-year-old Hiroto Suwa; his wife, Naho; and their old high school classmates—Takako Chino, Azusa Murasaka, and Saku Hagita—visit...

Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

After witnessing the killing of his parents, a teenage boy is put in a witness relocation program and sent to a boarding school in Canada to start a...

Tomas and his friends are happy in their town and school but must face the fact that some of the adults around are preparing to leave GDR and move to...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a...

Mr. Kong is not a typical Hong Kong teacher. He isn't happy just teaching his students in his class, but he would rather go to rave parties and play...

Floyd Baer is failing a class. He thinks tutoring will help. But when his supposed saviors are revealed to be the front for a fight club, Floyd will...

Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds...

A Headmistress steals from her own school. As a young girl Colleen McCabe asks a priest in confessional "What is sin?" Thirty years later she is...