School of Babel(La cour de Babel)
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France · 2014
1h 29m
Director Julie Bertuccelli
Starring
Genre Documentary
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They just arrived in France. They are Irish, Serbs, Brazilians Tunisians, Chinese and Senegalese. Julie Bertuccelli's documentary follows these students for a year as they navigate the French school system in a special course for new students. Battling more than just a language barrier, these students discuss being a foreigner in France and how that impacts their family lives and education.
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