School on the Move

200850 min 9 secFilm: Documentary

Direction: Michel Debats

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Instead of going away to school, some Evenk children of remote Siberia have the school brought to them!

French anthropologist Alexandra Lavrillier is fighting alongside the Evenk people of south-eastern Siberia to save their heritage. School on the Move travels with her to the taiga where this nomadic people live. Here she has helped set up a mobile school to give Evenk children the chance to receive a modern education without having to sacrifice their ancestral traditions. Lessons, for example, include learning to use a computer and lassoing and riding a reindeer.

Instead of being sent away to a boarding school at age 6, young Evenk students can stay with their families, making it possible to conserve and even revive their language and culture.

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  • Foreign Countries > Asia
  • Technology > Computer Technology, Internet and ElectronicsEducation
  • Education > Foreign Countries
  • Social Issues > Foreign SocietiesIdentity and Survival
  • Social Studies > Communities in Canada/WorldComparative Civilizations
  • Ethics and Religious Culture > Ethical Values
  • Geography > Human GeographyTerritory: Indigenous
  • Diversity > Identity
  • Media Education > Internet and Social Media

Credits


director
Michel Debats
director - collaboration
Alexandra Lavrillier
Henri Lecomte
photography
Vyacheslav Semenov
sound
Michel Debats
editing
Thierry Simonnet
translation
Alexandra Lavrillier
mixing
Sébastien Wera
grading
Eric Heinrich
original music
Thierry Chaze
delegate producer
Emmanuelle Wielezynski
accounting
Olivier Pasquier
voice-over
Véronique Augereau