This Is Home: A Refugee Story

Name: This Is Home: A Refugee Story
Genre: Documentary
Released: April 6, 2018
Duration: 91 min
Rating: 64

2018

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| Release Date: April 6, 2018 | Not Rated

Summary: Four Syrian families struggle to find their way in America.

Director: Alexandra Shiva

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 91 min

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Robert Abele

Apr 13, 2018

The small industry of documentaries about Syria shouldn't deter you from the affecting pull of This Is Home: A Refugee Story, Alexandra Shiva's heartwarming if conventional portrait of four refugee Syrian families navigating new lives in Baltimore. Read full review

Guy Lodge

Apr 13, 2018

This Is Home gestures toward a more detailed, heterogeneous understanding of these war victims as human beings, characterizing its four chosen families in detailed, individual terms, and listening attentively to their varied expressions of ambition and concern for their new future. Read full review

Nikki Baughan

Apr 13, 2018

Ultimately, This Is Home is a film which focuses on opportunity, rather than oppression, and a timely reminder that humanity knows no borders. Read full review

The Film Stage Daniel Schindel

Apr 13, 2018

Where it could do more to work inside its characters’ heads, it pulls back. Read full review

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