Last June 16, teachers involved in the ERASMUS+ project FUSION have discussed the films and series about education they had seen during the year and reviewed them . Teachers from Turkey, Spain , North Macedonia , Greece , Hungary and France exchanged about how films and series present the educational system.
Spain was the first Team to participe with the fim It All Starts Today (French: Ça commence aujourd'hui). It is a 1999 French drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier. It was entered into the 49th Berlin International Film Festival where it won an Honourable Mention. Daniel is schoolmaster of a kindergarten in a small French town. The local economy, which depended entirely on coal production, has been mired in a depression ever since the mines were closed.
Secondly our French partner introduced 2 French films and two recent French series with school and education as background. All highlight the difficulties of teachers in "prioritary zones " and praise the great commitment and work of the educational staff.
The Turkish team talked about two onscreen figures of teachers, that is John Keating (Dead Poets Society) and Terence Fletcher (Whiplash),of course mainly teachers’ attitude towards students. We will tell about this part in a complete post shortly.
