THE TEACHER’S COUNTRY | official trailer

A documentary by Benjamin Leers | Germany 2013 | 70 mins. The Teacher’s Country is the story of a country 50 years after its independence, told by four of its seemingly ordinary inhabitants. It examines the stories of their daily life in order to highlight the country’s long struggle for autonomy. There is single mother Bertha from Dar es Salaam. Since she works all day to make ends meet, she hardly sees her 10-year-old-daughter. Laurent Nestory works as a teacher on Kome Island. He tries hard to prepare h