Nicolas Philibert returns with another profoundly humanist documentary, this time about the students, aged four to ten, of a rural community, and the dedicated teacher who instructs them in all subjects, from maths to gym, in a one-room school. All over France, there are still examples of what are known as “single-class schools”, that bring together all the children of a village, from kindergarten to the last year of primary school, with one teacher. Both in their isolation and as they open up to the world, these eclectic little groups share everyday life, for better or for worse. To Be and to Have introduces us to the extraordinary world of George Lopez, a smiling soon-to-retire teacher of 13 children in a beautiful stone schoolhouse surrounded by a pretty garden in the heart of the Auvergne.