School for life is an intimate ethnographic document about a family of six from Bela Krajina, who consciously chooses to live outside institutional education and intertwines knowledge with everyday work, play and coexistence with nature. Through the period of the covid-19 epidemic, the Film sensitively shows how alternative approaches to upbringing, education and sustainable life shape family rhythms and relationships.
The film is followed by a conversation with visual anthropologist and film author Manca Filak.
The film projection is adapted for the blind and visually impaired, as well as the deaf and hard of hearing – it is equipped with a sound description, Slovenian subtitles and interpretation into Slovenian sign language. It takes place as part of the barrier-free cinema project, which enables accessible film screenings.
Entrance fee: 1 /
Entrance fee: 1 /
Director of the film: Manca Filak. Production country: Slovenia. Year of production: 2025. Duration: 1 hour. Language: English.
About the film:
School for life is an intimate ethnographic representation of the everyday life of a family of six from Bela Krajina, which was created within the framework of the doctoral dissertation visual ethnography of housewives in Slovenia. The Film follows Mihaela, a former Slovenian language teacher who, after the birth of her first daughter, decided not to include her children in kindergarten or school. Together with her husband Bostjan and four children, she explores different approaches – from natural births and homeschooling to striving for an ecological, sustainable and self-sufficient way of life. Mihaela understands education as part of everyday life, intertwined with household chores, play, food production and family life.
The Film delicately records how knowledge and upbringing are integrated into the spontaneous moments of the day and shape the family rhythm between 2021 and 2022, during the covid-19 epidemic and her husband's one-year parental leave.
Šola za življenje je intimni etnografski dokument o šestčlanski družini iz Bele krajine, ki se zavestno odloči za življenje zunaj institucionalnega šolstva ter znanje prepleta z vsakdanjim delom, igro in sobivanjem z naravo. Film skozi obdobje epidemije covida-19 občutljivo pokaže, kako alternativni pristopi k vzgoji, izobraževanju in trajnostnemu življenju oblikujejo družinski ritem in odnose.
Po filmu sledi pogovor z vizualno antropologinjo in avtorico filma Manco Filak.
Filmska projekcija je prilagojena za slepe in slabovidne ter gluhe in naglušne – opremljena je z zvočnim opisom, slovenskimi podnapisi in tolmačenjem v slovenski znakovni jezik. Poteka v sklopu projekta Kino brez ovir, ki omogoča dostopne filmske projekcije.
Vstopnina: 1 €
Vstopnina: 1 €
Režiserka filma: Manca Filak. Produkcijska država: Slovenija. Leto produkcije: 2025. Dolžina trajanja: 1ura. Jezik: slovenščina.
O filmu:
Šola za življenje je intimni etnografski prikaz vsakdanjika šestčlanske družine iz Bele krajine, ki je nastal v okviru doktorske disertacije Vizualna etnografija gospodinj v Sloveniji. Film spremlja Mihaelo, nekdanjo učiteljico slovenskega jezika, ki se je po rojstvu prve hčerke odločila, da svojih otrok ne bo vključila v vrtec ali šolo. Skupaj z možem Boštjanom in štirimi otroki raziskuje drugačne pristope – od naravnih porodov in šolanja na domu do prizadevanj za ekološki, trajnostni in samozadostni način življenja. Mihaela razume izobraževanje kot del vsakdana, prepletenega z gospodinjskimi opravili, igro, pridelovanjem hrane in družinskim življenjem.
Film občutljivo beleži, kako se znanje in vzgoja vključujeta v spontane trenutke dneva ter oblikujeta družinski ritem med letoma 2021 in 2022, v času epidemije covida-19 in moževega enoletnega starševskega dopusta.
