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  • 2013
  • Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2013
  • Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
  • 1 h 35 m

Summary Three Roma (or Gypsy) children - Alin, Benjamin, and Dana - participate in an initiative to desegregate the Romanian school system. Filmed over four years, their journey from a rural Transylvanian village to the city school highlights the difficulty in overcoming institutionalized racism, shocking ignorance, and poverty.

Directed By: Mona Nicoara, Miruna Coca-Cozma

  • 2013
  • Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
  • 1 h 35 m
  • 2013
  • Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP)
  • 1 h 35 m

Our School

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Summary Three Roma (or Gypsy) children - Alin, Benjamin, and Dana - participate in an initiative to desegregate the Romanian school system. Filmed over four years, their journey from a rural Transylvanian village to the city school highlights the difficulty in overcoming institutionalized racism, shocking ignorance, and poverty.

Directed By: Mona Nicoara, Miruna Coca-Cozma

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Jan 17, 2013
Discrimination against nomadic populations is hardly restricted to Romania, but the integration of that country's largest ethnic minority seems particularly pressing. If only that view were shared by the Romanian adults on screen, most of whom display a shocking degree of prejudice.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
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Jan 16, 2013
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.
By Eddie Cockrell FULL REVIEW
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Jan 16, 2013
Despite the efforts of many interviewees to seem broad-minded, Nicoara has a knack for ferreting out moments that reveal actual Romanian attitudes.
By Nick Pinkerton FULL REVIEW
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Jan 16, 2013
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.
By Steve Macfarlane FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Sat Mic Film, Pipas Films, Motto Pictures
Release Date Jan 18, 2013
Duration 1 h 35 m
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Website http://ourschoolfilm.blogspot.com/
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Awards

Silverdocs Documentary Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Créteil International Women's Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Gopo Awards, Romania
• 1 Nomination

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