Day after day, during the 1992-1993 school year, director Mariana Otero filmed the students of a junior high school in France in Saint Denis in the suburbs of Paris.
Whether in the classrooms or the Principal office, during the staff meeteings or even the disciplinary committee meetings, when all goes right or all goes wrong, Mariana Otero has captured the ordinary, exceptional or dramatic moments of a junior high school in a tough neighborhood.
Aged from 10 to 16, the students discover at Garcia Lorca Junior High School the rules and punishments. SCHOOL LAW is an astonishing and visionary documentary serial about how teenagers first get acquainted with society and its rules…