To write his film, Alexandre Castagnetti looked back on his school career. He always questioned himself on what he had really learned during this course and he realized, by exchanging with former comrades, that what they had best integrated was the fruit ofa self-taught approach.
He has, for example, learned to play the piano, to write stories or to use a camera on his own. What remains of school, basically, are friends, school trips and certain memorable teachers, which have triggered clicks in certain disciplines.
He realized that during all these years, it is above all his immediate memory which has been solicited, and that its culture has been forged essentially outside the school system.
“The school is ours” takes place in a college where a somewhat special maths teacher takes advantage of a general strike in a college to try an extraordinary experience with a small group of students. She takes a bet: let them do what they want…
A spark that will ignite the spirits of teenagers, cause a small revolution within the college and turn their lives upside down.