Free Screening: The Class

“The Class,” an artful, intelligent movie explores modern French identity and how one group of students are shaped into ideal French citizens. With their cellphones and pouts, these bored, restless junior high students look pretty much like typical American youth. One difference being that these African, Arab and Asian Parisians live in a country that insists its citizens have only one cultural identity, even if it is an identity many of these same young people don’t feel welcome to share. “The Class” isn’t directly about civil unrest and French identity as a republican ideal, though these issues run through it like a powerful current, keeping the children and adults on edge.

http://www.worldaffairs.org/events/2013/the-class.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Class_(2008_film)