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Released
2013 · FILM

On the Way to School

Directed by
Runtime
77 min
Language
FR
Documentary

Synopsis

These children live in the four corners of the earth, but share the same thirst for learning. They understand that only education will allow them a better future and that is why, every day, they must set out on the long and perilous journey that will lead them to knowledge. Jackson and his younger sister from Kenya walk 15 kilometres each way through a savannah populated by wild animals; Carlito rides more than 18 kilometres twice a day with his younger sister, across the plains of Argentina; Zahira lives in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains who has an exhausting 22 kilometres walk along punishing mountain paths before she reaches her boarding school; Samuel from India sits in a clumsy DIY wheelchair and the 4 kilometres journey is an ordeal each day, as his two younger brothers have to push him all the way to school…

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

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Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sarah AndersonShot by Pascal PlissonScored by Laurent Ferlet

Box Office

2013 · Box office

Grossed $7K worldwide

Worldwide gross

$7K

Worldwide gross$7K

Re-release box office

20152 theaters
$7K($10K today)

Domestic gross earned in theatrical re-release, by year · adjusted for inflation

Also known as

  • Auf dem Weg zur Schulede
  • On the Way to Schoolen
  • Camino a la escuelaes
  • Vado a scuolait

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