28th THESSALONIKI INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
5 MARCH → 15 MARCH 2026
TRIBUTES: Theme: Africa - Unresolved Issues

UK 2005 30 Betacam SP PAL Color
Mrs Mukasa, the new headmistress at Masindi Secondary School, finds herself in dire financial straits. Three quarters of the students have failed to pay their school fees and the teachers have gone without full pay for three months. She is determined that all the children must pay and instigates a tough new gate policy that is supposed to catch the defaulters. But her students are equally desperate to get into school. Eddie, an orphan, tries to scrape the fees together through odd jobs and help from his brother. And Justice, a skilled dodger, crawls under the fence and tricks his teachers with a borrowed payment card to get into class.