Favoriten (2024)

Directed by

Ruth Beckermann

Genre

documentary film

Country

Austria

Runtime

1h 58m

Rated

12+

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 2 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A teacher works with a class of 25 elementary students in a district of Vienna that has seen recent migration. The film shows the daily challenges and small victories in a school system with limited institutional support.

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What happens

Favoriten is a 2024 Austrian documentary film, named after Vienna's tenth district in which the action is set, directed by Ruth Beckermann. It is a film about teaching and learning in what some consider the equivalent of an inner-city school in Austria's largest city in response to recent migrations. It is a hopeful movie, with often surprising experiences oscillating between the roles of learner and teacher. The central theme revolves around a class of 25 elementary students whose engaged teacher is doing what is in her might to create chances for her students that they otherwise, for a lack of education in the parental home and a lack of school-institutional support alike, would not have. Favoriten had its world premiere on 16 February 2024 in the Encounters at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival. It was also nominated for the Berlinale Documentary Film Award. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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