Can anyone tell me what this film is called please?

[FattipuffsandThinnifers]

French film, c1998 (?), documentary, about a very small, rural school, and in particular the lovely, lovely teacher in his last term of teaching. I think the title is just one word but not sure. Quite low-budget.

One of the most moving, heartwarming lovely films I've seen, and I can't remember what it's called!

etre et avoir (sp!)

Etre et Avoir

Oh that film is amazing. I'm in tears every time.
I wonder what happened to Jo jo?

Photos on here
Charting the events within a small single-class village school over the course of one academic year, Etre et Avoir takes a warm and serene look at primary education in the French heartlands. A dozen youngsters, aged 4-10, are brought together in a rural classroom and taught every subject by a single teacher. A master of quiet authority, he patiently navigates the children towards adolescence, cooling down their arguments and listening to their problems with extraordinary dedication. Soon, however, he will have to say goodbye to those older students, who are now ready to go onto the state school in the local town. Winner of a host of international awards, Etre et Avoir is a unique meeting of a director of remarkable talent and a man whose assured approach to teaching will have an impact, not only upon the lucky few children who could share his wisdom, but upon anyone he sees this extraordinary and heart-warming film.

OH OF COURSE!! Thank you all!

Yep, am welling up a bit just thinking about it!

Oooh oooh i have one of these.
Late drunken night watching as a student.

Bleak, sandy / desert, bizarre - two pretty siblings, a bit of incest (i think) and a body in a concrete block in the basement oozing.
Did i dream it???

the cement garden?

it was shown quite alot recently on teachers tv

molesworth i haven't had your email!

and i AM on the same one that you had

am puzzled!

You see - that's why i LOVE Mumsnet .

I've got a googlemail one and a hotmail one for you - hotmail one doesn't work ??? weird! I'll do the necessary to send a CAT

• thankyou.

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Wonderful film - little Jojo!
Great that so many ages are taught together, this method is now almost totally unheard of. Just splendid.

ok - as you have had success with the other films...

What's the film, foreign, old, possibly black and white... ends with a woman shouting from either a window or outside a house at the top of a cliff at a man who is walking away - she's shouting 'Salvetore, salvetore' ?

any ides?

Rocco and his brothers?

Être et Avoir, English translation 'To Be and To have, director Nicolas Philibert, 2002.
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0002MFFG0?tag=i0ce-21
Hope this helps? Julie xxxx