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ARTE re: MY DREAM JOB IN PARIS

In hardly any other Western European country do origin and social background influence education as much as in France, and this becomes particularly clear during the compulsory internship in year 9. This is because it is usually the parents who find a suitable internship for their children through personal relationships. For young people like Naye and Merouane, who come from families without such contacts, the search is almost always doomed to failure. Virginie Salmen is fighting against this inequality of opportunity: in 2015, she founded the association “Viens vier mon taf” – “Look at my job”. The aim: to find the internships that pupils from so-called problem neighborhoods really want – instead of fobbing them off with the “doable”. The documentary follows Naye and Merouane for three months: at school, talking to friends about the problems of finding an internship, at home with their families. Naye is accepted at the radio station France Inter, Merouane is allowed to spend a week in the Hermès atelier. A challenge: they have to learn how to get through the day on just a few euros and travel to Paris, which is foreign and far removed from their everyday lives, on their own. But the two of them master their internship and take an important step towards their dream job.
A film by Chiara Sambuchi Camera Paolo Pisacane Editor Marcel Ozan Riedel Executive Producer Antje Boehmert Commissioning Editor Natalia Bachmeyer A production of DOCDAYS Productions for HR Length: 32 min Release Date: 2024
In hardly any other Western European country do origin and social background influence education as much as in France, and this becomes particularly clear during the compulsory internship in year 9. This is because it is usually the parents who find a suitable internship for their children through personal relationships. For young people like Naye and Merouane, who come from families without such contacts, the search is almost always doomed to failure. Virginie Salmen is fighting against this inequality of opportunity: in 2015, she founded the association “Viens vier mon taf” – “Look at my job”. The aim: to find the internships that pupils from so-called problem neighborhoods really want – instead of fobbing them off with the “doable”. The documentary follows Naye and Merouane for three months: at school, talking to friends about the problems of finding an internship, at home with their families. Naye is accepted at the radio station France Inter, Merouane is allowed to spend a week in the Hermès atelier. A challenge: they have to learn how to get through the day on just a few euros and travel to Paris, which is foreign and far removed from their everyday lives, on their own. But the two of them master their internship and take an important step towards their dream job.
A film by Chiara Sambuchi Camera Paolo Pisacane Editor Marcel Ozan Riedel Executive Producer Antje Boehmert Commissioning Editor Natalia Bachmeyer A production of DOCDAYS Productions for HR Length: 32 min Release Date: 2024