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Echoes of Ji.hlava Film Festival: Teach (Romania)
Thursday, February 20, 2020 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
[2nd Floor] Screening of the Romanian documentary film “Teach ” (Profu’), recipinet of the Best Central and East European Documentary Film Award at the 2019 Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival.
A peculiar math teacher from Transilvania is becoming a local Don Quijote when he quits the conventional educational system and opens a private lectures office in his own two-room apartment. Throughout a school year we follow his struggle and persistence in bringing back the passion of learning and change for better the lives of his pupils. The stubborn elder man follows the words of essayist Constantine Noica, who believes that in an ideal school, there should not be any lessons, but rather students should go there to free themselves from the tyranny of learning. The observational portrait documentary monitors the dynamics of the lessons themselves, where, in addition to mathematics, the problem of education itself is addressed and where the teacher acts like a father fi gure.
Profu’ (Teach) (2019), director: Alex Brendea, 82 min, Romania.
In Romanian with English subtitles.
Free and open to the public. Seats are limited, on first-come, first-served basis. RSVP online through Eventbrite.
This event is organized by Czech Center New York. For more information, visit www.czechcenter.com.
From Bohemian National Hall.