Basileus: The school of Kings

2017
1h 18m

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If you lose the toughest kids the school is no longer a school. It is a hospital that cares for the healthy and rejects the sick.
Don Lorenzo Milani.

From this assumption comes a long research work that questions the role of public school in Italian society, especially in difficult contexts such as those of the suburb.
The outskirts of the big cities are places where, using Pasolini's words, "there are lumps of alive, imperfect, disorderly and free humanity." Exploring its microcosm means, in a sense, to describe the complexity of our present, the direction that Italian society is taking. In fact, in the "class" universe, there are already all the dynamics of our contemporaneity.
To tell the world of teenagers realistically and without forcing, I decided to follow my characters without the use of face-to-face interviews.They move spontaneously within the classroom and the contexts in which they are used to living; I look at them in order to capture real and immediate sensations and emotions.The overall portrait of boys and their lives is gradually composed through their voices and actions. The way of observation, in this sense, seemed to me the only expressive way possible in interfering with that dense and varied context that is the world of school. The film, therefore, is primarily a dive into class life that points to the actuality and complexity of the issues dealt with in it and, together, to describe the delicate passage from adolescence to adulthood. Within this story, there are so many protagonists, boys and teachers who I have decided to tell, because each one represents a different and unrepeatable soul, and because through this corality we tried to emphasize the complexity of their lives and of their growth paths.

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'If you lose the toughest kids the school is no longer a school. It is a hospital that cares for the healthy and rejects the sick.' Don Lorenzo Milani. From this assumption comes a long rese... Read all'If you lose the toughest kids the school is no longer a school. It is a hospital that cares for the healthy and rejects the sick.' Don Lorenzo Milani. From this assumption comes a long research work that questions the role of public school in Italian society, especially in diffi... Read all'If you lose the toughest kids the school is no longer a school. It is a hospital that cares for the healthy and rejects the sick.' Don Lorenzo Milani. From this assumption comes a long research work that questions the role of public school in Italian society, especially in difficult contexts such as those of the suburb. The outskirts of the big cities are places wher... Read all