Our School

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Our School

2011

1h 33m

Documentary

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9 Reviews

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Forced to attend school in town, three Roma children encounter prejudice and isolation at the hands of educators and fellow students.

Jeannette Catsoulis

New York Times

"Our School" observes the feinting of small-town officials in rural Transylvania as they try to duck a mandate to integrate Roma children into the regular school system.

Rated: 5/5

Jan 17, 2013

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Steve Macfarlane

Slant Magazine

The filmmakers spend vastly more time chronicling bigoted remarks from Romanians about gypsy life than they do actual gypsy life, so a minor crisis of perspective hangs over Our School.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jan 16, 2013

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Nick Pinkerton

Village Voice

Our School does much to establish how that Roma "environment" is reinforced from the outside.

Jan 15, 2013

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Maitland McDonagh

Film Journal International

This documentary unfolds in Romania, but its depiction of multi-generational poverty perpetuated in part by substandard schooling could as easily have been set in dozens of other countries.

Jan 18, 2013

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Christopher Campbell

Movies.com

Many of the comments that come out of the teachers and other townspeople's mouths would be downright shocking if they didn't sound like things I've heard in so many American civil rights docs.

Mar 5, 2012

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Boyd van Hoeij

Cineuropa

Shot on video, the film showcases the stunted development of its protagonists and of a country that seems not entirely ready to let its preconceived ideas about the Roma go.

Mar 5, 2012

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An affecting and informative documentary. Highly recommended.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/04/23

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Audience Member

A documentary about the lives of Korean students in Hokkaido, Japan. Only 6000 koreans live in Hokkaido, and many of students are 3rd generation Koreans. Speaking in a mixture of Korean and Japanese, these students are isolated in a country that is not their own. The film does an amazing job of showing you how connected they are with each other and with the teachers. In a struggle to find and Idenity, the students voice their opinion whether it is better to fully assimilate to the Japanese culture, or if being proud to be a korean is worth all the hardship they face.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/15/23

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Mona Nicoara

Director

Miruna Coca-Cozma

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Mona Nicoara

Producer

Julie Goldman

Executive Producer

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Synopsis

Forced to attend school in town, three Roma children encounter prejudice and isolation at the hands of educators and fellow students.

Director: Mona Nicoara
Producer: Mona Nicoara
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Romany
Runtime: 1h 33m