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Synopsis:
Katya and Vasya, two young teachers, arrive in a small provincial town. They don’t have professional qualifications, but love children and have a passionate desire to instill the eternal values of reason and kindess. They dream of changing the school education system, but the reality turns out to be a lot more difficult than they had imagined. Half of the children in the school are planning to transfer to a vocational college after the 9th grade and have little interest in creativity: for them school is something akin to a penal colony. Can Katya and Vasya preserve their enthusiasm? Will they be able to find a common language with these difficult teenagers? And will they stay on for another academic year?
About the director:
Yulia Vishnevetskaya is a Moscow-based journalist and documentary filmmaker who has produced numerous articles, photo reports and TV stories devoted to social issues. She has worked for Radio Liberty since 2019. Her short film Shies, which she shot together with Konstantin Salomatin, was awarded the Redkollegia professional prize. Her first feature-length documentary Hey, Teachers won a Special Mention from the jury at the Krakow Film Festival.