150 enfants dont 135 d'origine étrangère : Le défi fou d'une maternelle à Barbès

The nursery school at 57 rue de la Goutte d'Or, in Barbès, Paris's 18th arrondissement. 150 children, 135 of whom are of foreign origin. But here, who is the foreigner to whom? In a polyphony that is both gentle and harsh, teachers and parents—French, North African, and sub-Saharan African—question this neighborhood and the possibility of a shared future for their children, a future that a teaching team, by turns enthusiastic and discouraged, strives to prepare. Director: Julie Talon This remarkably insightful film poses a fundamental question: how do we build the Republic and foster "living together" from the earliest age? Far from the media clichés about Barbès and the 18th arrondissement of Paris, the camera gets down to the children's level, but above all, it captures the voices of the adults. Between teachers' anxieties about insufficient resources and the hopes of parents from all over the world, this documentary shows the daily life of a neighborhood school transformed into a laboratory for integration. A choral portrait, sometimes raw but profoundly humanist, where public school stands as the last bastion for building a shared future.