ȘCOALA NOASTRĂ / OUR SCHOOL

Language: RO

Directed by: Mona Nicoară, Miruna Coca-Cozma

Documentary – USA, Switzerland – 2011 – 94 min

Section: No Future Without – Extended Dialogues

“Our School” follows Alin, Beni and Dana, three Roma children in a Transylvanian village who are among the first participants in an initiative to integrate the ethnically segregated Romanian schools. Shot over four years, the documentary touches on institutionalized racism, public education, and the intractability of poverty, in this bittersweet and often funny story about tradition and progress, hope and race.