School on the Move

School on the Move

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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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School on the Move, Michel Debats, provided by the National Film Board of Canada

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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
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