Teenagers at a secondary school in the Canadian provinces. A time between childhood and adulthood where boundaries are tested and overstepped. This particular aspect of their daily reality ‚ breaking rules, discipline problems at school and conflicts with other students ‚ shine through in the long conversations conducted between the adolescents and their social workers. School is also where they have moral guidelines for how to live together in society laid out for them. The film’s own approach has nothing to do with social education however. Its calmly observed conversations and carefully composed images of the teenagers in their free time articulate a sense of interest and empathy for this odd period in life.
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Jean-François Caissy
IndieLisboa 2014 • Pulsar do Mundo
Canada, Documentary, 2014, 76′