Flirting

In Flirting, Danny Embling is a student at a private boarding school for boys. (The boys and girls schools are separated by a lake.) Danny meets an African girl, named Thandiwe, and they fall in love. They sneak away from their schools at night to meet several times. In order to talk to her over the phone, he fakes being her dad as a sort of secret code to say it's him. In the end, Thandiwe must leave to go back to her country because her father was arrested and her stepmother was taken. She needs to go back to take care of her 2 younger siblings. She still writes letters to Danny but they eventually stop. At the end, he reads the very last letter about how she can't wait to see him again. I thought this movie was very good and I enjoyed watching it. I felt like the teachers were unnecessarily strict but also that the students may have gone too far in some of the things they did. In this school, the teachers are allowed to "beat" the students into obedience. If the students are disobedient, they just get beaten some more.

"Danny has been sent to boarding school, in this sequel to The Year My Voice Broke. Against a backdrop of bullying and sadistic teachers Danny strikes up an affair with an African girl, Thandiwe, studying at a nearby girls school. Their affair blossoms while everyone tries to stop it. Nicole Kidman also appears as a sexually repressed senior at Thandiwes' school."
-Matthew Stanfield (www.imdb.com)

"With its complex characters, low-key atmosphere, and sumptuous cinematography, the movie was widely critically acclaimed. It was featured on Roger Ebert's Top 10 Best Films List of 1992. The film won the 1990 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film. This movie ranked number 46 on Entertainment Weekly's "50 Best High School Movies.""
-Wikipedia