DocHouse
Presents:
The Boys of Baraka
Sun 20 4.00
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With eighty percent of Baltimore’s African American
boys dropping out of high school and half of them ending
up in jail, Mavis Jackson runs a programme to send twenty
‘at risk’ twelve-year-olds to a school in Kenya
for their 7th and 8th grade education. This fascinating
documentary highlights the profound academic and cultural
failings of the North American system and the changes and
achievements of the youngsters, as we follow the group through
the culture shock of swapping their inner-city streets for
the Baraka School’s strict disciplinary regime in
the bush country of East Africa. A huge hit at the Edinburgh
film festival earlier this year.
US 2005, dir. Rachel Grady, Heidi Ewing, 84 min. Loki
Films (US)
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