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ROOKIES<\/span><\/h2>\n

| 2024 – 110′ – Documentary, Coming of Age, Music & Dance.
\nWritten by:\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Thierry Demaizi\u00e8re, Alban Teurlai.
\nDirected by:\u00a0Thierry Demaizi\u00e8re, Alban Teurlai<\/span>.
\n<\/span>Official Selection Berlin International Film Festival 2022.\u00a0C\u00e9sar Awards\u00a0Nomination Best Documentary 2023.
\nOfficial Competition\u00a0COLCOA 2022<\/b>\u00a0(North American Premiere)
\nIn French with English subtitles.
\nA Distrib Films US release. |<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Filmed over the 2018-19 academic year, the upbeat breakdance documentary\u00a0Rookies\u00a0follows a group of talented, ambitious kids from diverse backgrounds as they adjust to life at Turgot, in the center of Paris, a much swankier high school than they\u2019re used to.\u00a0 It\u2019s a culture shock. The principal has lifted the geographic zoning barrier to allow kids from less affluent neighborhoods to attend the school, to make breakdance a significant part of the curriculum\u2026 and boost their chances at winning hip-hop battles with competing schools.\u00a0 The new kids are, of course, all amazing on the dancefloor \u2014 dancing is what they live for; it\u2019s their salvation and why they were chosen.\u00a0 And the dynamic film gives them lots of screen time to shine and blow us away with their moves, right up to the climactic breakdance battle. But it also offers many intimate moments, where the kids bare their souls and offer us a glimpse into much more painful aspects of their personal lives.\u00a0 In the end, it\u2019s that split between the reality of who they are and the academic expectations suddenly thrust upon them in this totally unfamiliar world that\u2019s the real stumbling block to be overcome\u2026 It\u2019s also what makes them so human, and their path forward such a thorny one.<\/em>
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