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OSCAR HONORS FILM ABOUT REFUGEES

By Greg Siskind

The film Strangers No More won the Academy Award for Best Documentary - Short Subject this evening. The film is described as follows at IMDB: In the heart of Tel Aviv, there is an exceptional school where children from forty-eight different countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. Many of the students arrive at Bialik-Rogozin School fleeing poverty, political adversity and even genocide. Here, no child is a stranger. The film follows several students' struggle to acclimate to life in a new land while slowly opening up to share their stories of hardship and tragedy: Mohammed, a sixteen-year-old refugee...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on February 27, 2011 (boomark / email).