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Our School / Naša škola
Our School
In Competition > Documentaries
Film info| Country | USA, Romania, Switzerland | Year | 2011. |
| Director | Mona Nicoara | Runtime | 94 |
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Silverdocs Documentary Festival 2011. - Grand Jury Prize for Best US Feature
“Our School” follows three Roma (commonly known as "Gypsy") children in a rural Transylvanian village who are among the pioneer participants in an initiative to integrate the ethnically segregated Romanian schools. When their school is desegregated, Alin, Benjamin, and Dana set out for the city school, optimistic for education and new friendships. Their innocent optimism quickly sours when the children are met with low expectations and further isolation.
Mona Nicoara began working in film as an Associate Producer for “Children Underground”, a feature length documentary about street children, which received the Special Jury Prize at the 2001 Sundance Film Festival and a 2001 Academy Award nomination. Mona has been a human rights activist since the 1989 Revolution that overthrew the Ceausescu regime in her native Romania.
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