Using historical footage and audio recordings, as well as interviews with Freinet pioneers of yesteryear, Een andere school recounts not only an amazing experiment by a group of idealists, but also the life and work of French pedagogue Célestin Freinet. The film offers an illuminating insight into the basic principles of his progressive pedagogical system. A historical film, looking back at a crucial phase in the emergence of Freinet schools in Flanders, but also a film that is relevant to this day. Not only because Flanders currently has the highest number of Freinet schools in the world, but also because the film addresses themes that are hot topics in the field of education today.