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Movie Info

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

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

Romany
Director:

Mona Nicoara
Producer:

Mona Nicoara
Runtime:

1h 33m

Cast & Crew

Mona Nicoara
Director

Miruna Coca-Cozma
Co-Director

Mona Nicoara
Producer

Julie Goldman
Executive Producer

News & Interviews for Our School

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Critic Reviews for Our School

All Critics (9) | Top Critics (4) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (1)

"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.

January 17, 2013 | Rating: 5/5

Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
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.

January 16, 2013 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…

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

January 15, 2013 | Full Review…

Nick Pinkerton
Village Voice
Exercising admirable restraint in its expose of ingrained racism in the Romanian educational system, absorbing docu Our School follows the sad yet resilient journey of three Roma children over four years as they grapple with prejudice and stereotyping.

February 27, 2012 | Full Review…

Eddie Cockrell
Variety
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.

January 18, 2013 | Full Review…

Maitland McDonagh
Film Journal International
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.

March 5, 2012 | Full Review…

Christopher Campbell
Movies.com
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.

March 5, 2012 | Full Review…

Boyd van Hoeij
Cineuropa
Like watching the European equivalent of the aftermath of Brown vs. Board of Education, endemic prejudice against the Roma (or Gypsy) people plays out bald-faced in front of the cameras of Mona Nicoara and Miruna Coca-Cozma.

February 27, 2012 | Full Review…

Nora Lee Mandel
Film-Forward.com
Through some frankly lovely observational footage, some scenes that are painful to see, and remarkably revealing interviews, the movie doesn't so much press this case as it lets it unfold.

February 27, 2012 | Rating: 8/10 | Full Review…

Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters