Our School

In Eastern Europe, the Roma, or gypsies, are regularly discriminated against. It’s a huge problem and one that directors Mona Nicoara and Miruna Coka-Cozma explore in their 2011 documentary film Our School. After Transylvania issued a mandate to integrate Roma children into its schools, administrators actively tried to circumvent the system (sounds a bit like what happened here in the States back in the ’50s). Nicoara and Coka-Cozma follow three kids for four years to see what kind of problems they face. The New York Times describes the film as “part case study on entrenched racism and part heartbreaking human-rights story.” (Jeff Niesel)