CPH:DOX 2026 - Out of School / La Cour des Grands

Twelve-year-old Mohamed can no longer continue his studies. His parents cannot afford the daily journey to the nearest secondary school. Without further education, his dream of working in the city and lifting his family out of poverty begins to fade. His sister Fatima, about to complete her final year at the village’s primary school, hopes to escape the same fate. She wants to become a teacher. To wear jeans to work. She wants a life that extends beyond housework and marriage.

'Out of School' follows two children from the first generation in their village to enter a classroom. When education ends after the earliest grades, so too does the promise it carried. What awaits is not adolescence as a time of discovery, but an accelerated entry into adult responsibility. A coming-of-age story from a Moroccan village, where the distance between dreams and reality is almost unbearable.