Only Waltz with Bashir, the animated Israeli nomination - a shell-shocked re-assessment of the filmmaker's role in the 1982 Lebanon War - is from outside Europe. Not good. However, the French entry - The Class - looks interesting:
This portrait of a year in the life of a class of Parisian middle school students focuses on the ethnically diverse children who comprise the group and their dedicated teacher, François Marin. Unfolding almost entirely within the classroom itself, the story explores the diversity of personality and background among the students that makes Marin's work both challenging and rewarding.
With no stars and a small budget, diversity (or lack of it) would seem to be the kind of subject matter that South Africans are well placed to discuss. Question is though; how would such material have been handled by a South African director?
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