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Four Syrian families struggling to find their way in America.
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| FF2 MediaAmelie LaskerThis Is Home's creators, a team of mostly women, have wrought an intimate story of the four families and their new American lives, a story which gives essential attention to the larger implications of the Syrian refugee crisis. |
| Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleThe 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. |
| VogueEve MacSweeneyShiva, in this quiet, thoughtful film, has given us a gift in laying bare the extremity of their transition. The more she illuminates the nuances, the better we see. |
| Hammer to NailChristopher Llewellyn ReedShiva, intimately ensconced with her subjects, reminds us that we are all one species, no matter our differences. Home, thy name is humanity. |
| The PlaylistGary Garrison"This Is Home" is no "City of Ghosts" or "Last Men In Aleppo," it is unlikely to cause the seismic quake required to shake the apathy from the masses, but it is a much-needed reminder that a journey never quite ends when you think it does. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeThis 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. |
| Screen InternationalNikki BaughanUltimately, This Is Home is a film which focuses on opportunity, rather than oppression, and a timely reminder that humanity knows no borders. |
| Eye for FilmAmber WilkinsonIt is Shiva's lightness of touch that sells the film. Just as she lets the politics of the situation show through by examining their impact, her unobtrusive, observational style also helps the families feel free to recount their stories of trauma. |
| The Film StageDan SchindelWhere it could do more to work inside its characters' heads, it pulls back. |
| The Film StageDaniel SchindelWhere it could do more to work inside its characters’ heads, it pulls back. |