Teach Me If You Can

Apr 1, 2021

1h 30m

★ 7.0

Overview

The three teachers Svetlana, Sandrine and Taslima teach children and young people in places that are hardly accessible for “normal” lessons - in a nomad tent under the snow cover of Siberia, in a hut in the bushland of Burkina Faso and on a school boat in Bangladesh. They share a common goal: to enable their students to have a better future through education.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Gébéka Films

Teach Me If You Can Trailers

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Cast

Self - Teacher in Siberia

Svetlana Vassileva

Self - Teacher in Burkina Faso

Sandrine Zongo

Self - Teacher in Bangladesh

Taslima Akter

Narrator (voice)

Karin Viard

Self - A student in Burkina Faso

Monique Kambou

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