After Hippocrates and the Hospital, Thomas Lilt brings us back to school with serious work, a fascinating film about the world of teaching.

What is it about?

returned to school. A new school year at the college featuring Pierre, Meryem, Fouad, Sophie, Sandrine, Alix and Sofiane, a group of dedicated and united teachers. They are joined by Benjamin, a young substitute teacher who has no experience and quickly encounters the difficulties of the profession. Through contact with them, he discovers how much the passion for teaching remains alive in a weakened institution.

Thomas returned to Lilt’s school. For his 5th feature film, the filmmaker invites us back to school with serious work, a much-loved film centered around teachers. After the medical field, which he studied for a long time, the scenery has changed for this new film.

Why did you want to be interested in the educational environment? How to stand out when this topic is already the subject of many feature films and documentaries?

“There are many movies about school. There are many movies about extraordinary teachers. There are movies showing extraordinary teaching methods with sensational teachers.

There are many films by students that depict the difficulties of teaching. I took the opposite side. I said to myself: What I want to talk about is this college that we never talk about and yet it’s the most common.”.

and added: “This is a college where, after all, things don’t go so badly. There are some things that are difficult, but the college we are talking about in the news is not the majority of French colleges and fortunately.

Under the auspices of fiction, I wanted to put my cameras in an ordinary college, with teachers who have a sense of commitment, who still have a lot of taste for their profession and suffer because the work is very difficult. But they still believe it. This was the common theme and the main motivation for making this film.“

During this podcast, we’ll also talk about his family of actors who portray this group of teachers (Vincent Lacoste, William Lebgill, Francois Clouzet, Louise Burgoyne…) and newcomers, including Adele Exarchopoulos. At the end of the interview, Thomas Lilt tells us more about Hippocrates Season 3, which has some surprises in store!

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