This free film screening is presented by the French Embassy in Ireland and the Alliance Française network to celebrate La journée internationale des professeurs de français (International French Teachers’ Day) .

Synopsis

A teacher in the most prestigious highschool in the country, François (Denis Podalydès) enjoys the life he’s always known, in the intellectual and bourgeois society of Paris.

Trapped in a situation where he’s forced to accept a job in a school of a tough underprivileged suburb, he finds himself confronted to his own limits and to the upheaval of his values and certainties.

Awards

Selected for the Rendez-vous with French Cinema in Paris (France, 2018 & 2019), the Rendez-vous with New French Cinema in Rome (Italy, 2018), and the French Film Festival UK (United Kingdom, 2017)

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