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      Our School

      2011 1h 33m Documentary List
      89% 9 Reviews Tomatometer 82% 100+ Ratings Audience Score Forced to attend school in town, three Roma children encounter prejudice and isolation at the hands of educators and fellow students. Read More Read Less

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      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 Full Review 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 Full Review Nick Pinkerton Village Voice Our School does much to establish how that Roma "environment" is reinforced from the outside. Jan 15, 2013 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member An affecting and informative documentary. Highly recommended. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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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
      Julie Goldman
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      Romany
      Runtime
      1h 33m