Debut documentary from the critically-acclaimed director Nicolas Philibert, exploring the lives and the courage of deaf people in France and looking at the nature of sign language as a means of expression.

Award-winning documentary charting the events within a small single-class village primary school in the Auvergne region of France over the course of one academic year. A dozen children aged 4-10 are brought together each day in a rural classroom and taught all their subjects by a single teacher, Monsieur Georges Lopez. A master of quiet authority, he patiently navigates the children towards adolesence, cooling down their arguments and listening to their problems, while trying to balance the varying needs of the disparate age groups for whom he must provide.

Nicolas Philibert is one of the world's leading documentary makers and is the winner of a BAFTA and a Cesar. The protagonists in this documentary are the patients and staff at the La Borde psychiatric clinic in France. Each summer they perform a play on a stage set in the grounds of La Borde. The film charts the rehearsals for the play and allows the viewer a glimpse at life in one the world's most highly regarded psychiatric institutions.