
Immigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don't understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.... (Full plot summary below)
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Immigrant children have to find their way in a new classroom, with a new teacher and a language they don't understand. An ode to the teacher every child deserves.
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| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohAffecting doc about one teacher's handling of a classroom filled with immigrant children, probingly filmed but with a graceful tact. |
| Common Sense MediaSandie Angulo ChenPoignant docu about Dutch teacher's refugee students. |
| Georgia StraightLucy LauThis charming doc gives a much-needed face to a population that has been splashed across newspaper pages and gruesome television reports in recent years. |
| Screen-SpaceSimon Foster[An] understated yet soaring study of what the term 'assimilation' means to a classroom in Holland. |
| Paste MagazineTim Grierson... Miss Kiet's Children is a sneakily empathetic look at some kids who have experienced troubling childhoods-and how the normalcy of a classroom can restore some of childhood's ebullience. |
| El Pais (Spain)Jordi CostaMiss Kiet's Children is far more than an extraordinary feat in documentary filmmaking - it's uncontaminated observation. [Full Review in Spanish] |
| L.A. WeeklyAlan ScherstuhlMuch like a day at elementary school, this verite wonder called Miss Kiet's Children is exhausting, heartening, raucous, tender, occasionally dull, sometimes tearful and ultimately a vital public good. |
| NonficsJordan M. SmithQuiet and cute, but big hearted and bold in its serene handling of the immigrant experience, Miss Kiet's Children may have been my personal favorite. |
| Detroit NewsTom LongIn the end "Miss Kiet's Children" offers hope and promise. After all, if these kids can thrive, all kids should be able to. |
| User ReviewSusan KReminiscent of Michael Apted's "7 Up" series, a quietly sensitive documentary without a narrative line except to follow a school year in a Dutch mixed-age classroom of refugee children. As in the Apted series, the children's personalities emerge through their own actions and words as they meet the challenges of new language, cultural assimilation, and the simple discipline of daily school attendance. |