Screening of School of Life followed by Q&A with the documentary’s protagonist, Nicolò Govoni, moderated by Claudio Pagliara, Director of the Italian Cultural Institute.
In most parts of the world, school is a crucial environment for growth — a place where children can learn, develop, and achieve self-fulfillment. Then there are places where school can save your life.
The mission of the non-profit organization Still I Rise is to solve the global education crisis by empowering the most discriminated against, impoverished, and vulnerable children through an innovative educational model aimed at providing excellent, free education to every child in the world.
The documentary film (87 minutes) tells the stories of these children and their daily lives in the facilities founded by the organization. It is a journey through some of the world’s least-traveled corners, exploring some of the most complex regions on Earth, where children are often denied any future, yet find in Still I Rise schools the hope and opportunity for a better tomorrow.
BIO
Nicolò Govoni is a writer and human rights activist who serves as President and CEO of the nonprofit organization Still I Rise. Raised in Cremona, he left home at the age of twenty to volunteer in India, where he lived for four years and earned a degree in journalism. At twenty-five, he founded Still I Rise, a humanitarian organization dedicated to building and operating schools that provide top-tier education to some of the world’s most vulnerable children across Greece, Syria, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Yemen, Colombia, and South Sudan. In 2020, he was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. Since 2015, he has written eight books. His life and the story of Still I Rise are the focus of the documentary film School of Life (2025), produced by Groenlandia and Rai Cinema. He currently lives and works in Nairobi.
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