After spending three years with the Moroccan Oulad Boukais tribe, director Mohamed El Aboudi brings optimism to a locked-down world hungry for human connections. A poetic ode to the human spirit, SCHOOL OF HOPE has its international premiere in Hot Docs International Spectrum competition (April 29 - May 9).
SCHOOL OF HOPE is produced by Finland s Illume (THE TRANS SYRIAN EXPRESS), France s Bellota Films (ABBAS BY ABBAS), Morocco s La Prod (URGENT) and US-based Vulcan Productions (SUMMER OF SOUL).
The Oulad Buokais tribe have lost their livestock and nomadic way of living to climate change. Unable to get government support for even water or electricity, they invest in education by building a hut for a young teacher. Their children ride donkeys and bicycles or walk for miles to attend a school of hope built of clay.