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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.

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Jeannette Catsoulis New York Times 01/17/2013
5/5
"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. Go to Full Review Steve Macfarlane Slant Magazine 01/16/2013
2.5/4
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. Go to Full Review Nick Pinkerton Village Voice 01/15/2013
Our School does much to establish how that Roma "environment" is reinforced from the outside. Go to Full Review Maitland McDonagh Film Journal International 01/18/2013
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. Go to Full Review Christopher Campbell Movies.com 03/05/2012
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. Go to Full Review Boyd van Hoeij Cineuropa 03/05/2012
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. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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03/20/2012 An affecting and informative documentary. Highly recommended. See more 04/05/2008 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. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Mona Nicoara

Director

Miruna Coca-Cozma

Co-Director

Mona Nicoara

Producer

Julie Goldman

Executive Producer
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Movie Info

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