Radu Ciorniciuc • Romania-Germany • 2020 • A family living on the fringes of Romanian society.
The Enache family has lived in the wilderness of the Bucharest Delta for nearly two decades. Gica and Niculina’s nine children spent their childhoods sleeping in a hut on the lakeshore, catching fish with their bare hands, attuned to the rhythms of the changing seasons. Only this area is being transformed into a national park. Forced to leave their home, the family struggles to conform to modern civilization and maintain their connection to each other and themselves.
Suspended between their rural origins and an austere new urban reality, Acasa, My Home offers a compelling tale of an impoverished family living on the fringes of Romanian society. Radu Ciorniciuc’s first film premiered at Sarajevo, where it won the Human Rights Award; Dublin, where it won Best Documentary; Zurich, where it won a Special Mention; and Sundance, where it won a World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography. Acasa, My Home is a New York Times Critic’s Pick.
Philippe Faucon • 2015 • France • Based on the poetry of Moroccan poet Fatima Elayoubi
Fatima is of North-African descent. Having relocated to France, she works as a cleaning lady so she can help pay her daughters' wa...
Gianfranco Rosi • 2016 • Italy
A small fishing town emerges as the nexus of the refugee crisis.
Halfway between Sicily and the coast of Tunisia lies a tiny island with a dwindling full-time population of several...
So Yong Kim • Canada-South Korea-USA • 2006 • Capturing the loneliness facing teenage immigrants.
Aimie’s family has recently immigrated from South Korea. They live in a bleak, wintry town in North America, their isolation underscored by the layers of snow that fall seemingly without end. Aimie...
