Synopsis
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…
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Cast
- Noura AzzagaghSelf
- Zahira BadiSelf
- CarlitoSelf
- Zineb ElkabiSelf
- Emmanuel J. EstherSelf
- Gabriel J. EstherSelf
- MicaelaSelf
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Village Voice
The film quietly reveals these four small stories as epically heroic and timeless journeys. - 70
Los Angeles Times
[A] stirring, tenderly observed French documentary - 50
The New York Times
On the Way to School never wavers in its bland uplift. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Even if the film does manage to reveal the splendor of each voyage, it tends to lose its characters in the landscape.
