Active Vocabulary

"Why are women in the forest areas around Moscow protesting against the construction of a school?" I ask myself. "When would you report your teacher?" a teacher in Berlin-Moabit asks her class. "Where is the line between political education and indoctrination?" asks Yulia Lokshina, who herself experienced a change of system when she came to Germany from Russia in 1999. Satellite images, 3D models, testimonies of a protest captured with a hand-held camera, a Russian teacher in asylum in Berlin. The places and visual worlds in 'Active Vocabulary' initially seem only loosely connected, but the filmic constellation reveals the outline of a symbolic classroom that is deciphered as the foundation of a society. There, all the elements condense into a fundamental political question: the question of educating people to maturity.