Acasa, My Home

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Acasa, My Home

Released Jan 15, 2021

1h 26m

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A rural Romanian couple and their nine children must learn to live in the big city.

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Acasa, My Home presents a powerful documentary portrait of one family's odyssey that illustrates bittersweet truths about freedom and society.

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Richard Lawson

Vanity Fair

Acasa, My Home is an essential document of a nation ever in flux, and of what individual lives are disrupted and cast aside in the churn of progress.

Dec 3, 2021

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Andrew Pulver

Guardian

Ciorniciuc and his co-writer Lina Vdovîi, in allowing events to unfold slowly in front of the camera, have created a beautifully measured portrait of an amazingly resonant topic.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 22, 2021

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Selome Hailu

Austin Chronicle

Rică, like Acasă, My Home itself, meditates on how we define a life worth choosing.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 22, 2021

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Harry Solomons

Loud and Clear Reviews

Understated, honest, and unflinching, Acasa, My Home is a stunning portrayal of a family caught in a unique upheaval.

Rated: 4/5

Jan 8, 2025

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Mark R. Leeper

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ACASA, MY HOME is a documentary about a family which has been living in the Bucharest delta for twenty years with few modern conveniences. Then the government turns the delta into a nature preserve and the family must leave the delta and live in the city.

Rated: 6/10

Sep 18, 2022

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Ryan Lambert

Battle Royale With Cheese

This is observational filmmaking at its finest, so proximate to these people and their story that for moments I forgot I was watching a documentary...

Dec 3, 2021

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andy h

It's a delicate journey, but a worthy one for those liking to explore family life around the world.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/31/23

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Audience Member

Cliché about the Romani family. Same thing that the Romanian directors have been rehashing for almost a decade now. It's quite arguably the same type of content that shocked all of Europe over 5 years ago in UK TV show "the Romanians are coming" with the camera turned on another side of the Romanian society.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/18/23

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Radu Ciorniciuc

Director

Erkko Lyytinen

Producer

Monica Lazurean-Gorgan

Producer

Alina David

Producer

Hanka Kastelicová

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Radu Ciorniciuc

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Synopsis

A rural Romanian couple and their nine children must learn to live in the big city.

Director: Radu Ciorniciuc
Producer: Erkko Lyytinen, Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, Alina David
Distributor: Zeitgeist Films
Production Co: Corso Film, Manifest Film Co., HBO Romania, HBO Europe, Yle to 1 Finland
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Romanian
Release Date (Theaters): Jan 15, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Mar 15, 2021
Runtime: 1h 26m

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