THE SOUTH

This investigative documentary looks at the differences in educational standards between the state-funded schools located in the affluent Northern and the disadvantaged Southern localities of Buenos Aires. At huge personal risk, the teachers themselves see no other way of improving their students’ desperate situation than blowing the whistle on their public employers by telling their own story and exposing the issues they face on a daily basis. The film creates a distressing portrait of the systematic socio-economic discrimination within the state school system today which deprives thousands of children of a valuable education and a way out of poverty.