Strangers No More (2010)

Directed by

Kirk Simon, Karen Goodman

Genre

documentary film

Country

Israel, United States

Runtime

40 min

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary follows three students at a school in Tel Aviv where children from 48 countries learn together. It shows their struggles to adjust to a new life and slowly reveals the difficult stories they carry.

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What happens

Strangers No More is a 2010 short documentary film about a school in Tel Aviv, Israel, where children from 48 countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. The parents of these children are among over 300,000 transnational migrant workers who have arrived in Israel—some with government authorization and others undocumented. The film follows three students as they struggle to acclimate to life in Israel and slowly unveil their stories of hardship. Strangers No More was shot on location at the Bialik-Rogozin School in Tel Aviv. It is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon of Simon & Goodman Picture Company, whose films have received four Academy Award nominations and three Emmy Awards. It won best Short Documentary at the Academy Awards in 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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