When a teacher hangs herself in her classroom, an Algerian refugee, Bashir Lazhar, is hired to take over her class. The 6th graders are shaken, especially the boy who found her. He blames himself for her death. The other students blame him, too, as do, apparently, the teachers and principal.
Early on, the principal explains to Lazhar that he cannot touch the students. He can't hit them, he can't hug them, nothing. Another teacher chuckles that she used to twist kids' ears and the principal says that she used to hit her students. The teachers are resisting the urge to hurt them, not hug them.
Lazhar is the only one who was appalled that a teacher would kill herself in her classroom knowing her students would find her. Did the kid do something terrible to her, or did she do something terrible to him?
In French. It was nominated for an Oscar best foreign language film.
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