This Is Home: A Refugee Story

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This Is Home: A Refugee Story

2018

1h 31m

Documentary

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Four Syrian families struggle to find their way in America.

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Robert Abele

Los Angeles Times

04/12/2018

[A] heartwarming if conventional portrait of four refugee Syrian families navigating new lives in Baltimore.

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Justin Lowe

The Hollywood Reporter

01/22/2018

Even with this remarkable degree of access ... the film still lacks a distinct sense of drama.

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Guy Lodge

Variety

01/22/2018

Moves no needles cinematically or politically, but makes a heartening call for open-armed empathy in an America still guarded on that front.

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Phil Guie

Film-Forward.com

03/25/2019

2/5

The film constantly jumps from subject to subject, rarely lingering long enough for the scenes to have an impact.

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Amelie Lasker

FF2 Media

08/26/2018

4.5/5

This Is Home's creators, a team of mostly women, have wrought an intimate story of the four families and their new American lives, a story which gives essential attention to the larger implications of the Syrian refugee crisis.

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Eve MacSweeney

Vogue

06/22/2018

Shiva, in this quiet, thoughtful film, has given us a gift in laying bare the extremity of their transition. The more she illuminates the nuances, the better we see.

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Coby N

@Coby00 02/02/2020

Heart warming, eye opening, a must watch.

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Alexandra Shiva

Director

Jason Blum

Executive Producer

Princess Firyal of Jordan

Executive Producer

Patty Quillin

Executive Producer

Lindsey Megrue

Producer

Alexandra Shiva

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Synopsis

Four Syrian families struggle to find their way in America.

Director: Alexandra Shiva
Producer: Lindsey Megrue, Alexandra Shiva
Genre: Documentary
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 20, 2018
Runtime: 1h 31m

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