Strangers No More

{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2026}} {{Infobox film | name = Strangers No More | image = Strangers No More.jpg | alt =  | caption = | director = Karen Goodman<br>Kirk Simon | producer = | writer = | screenplay = | story = | starring = | music = | cinematography = Buddy Squires | editing = | studio = Simon & Goodman Picture Company | distributor = HBO | released = {{Film date|2010}} | runtime = 40 minutes | country = | language = | budget = | gross = }} '''''Strangers No More''''' is a 2010 short documentary film about a school in Tel Aviv, Israel, where children from 48 countries and diverse backgrounds come together to learn. The parents of these children are among over 300,000 transnational migrant workers who have arrived in Israel—some with government authorization and others undocumented.<ref>{{cite book|last=Willen|first=Sarah|title=Transnational Migration to Israel in Global Comparative Context|year=2007|publisher=Lexington Books|location=Lanham, MD|url=http://www.rowmanlittlefield.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db=^DB/CATALOG.db&eqSKUdata=0739110675&thepassedurl=}}</ref>

The film follows three students as they struggle to acclimate to life in Israel and slowly unveil their stories of hardship. ''Strangers No More'' was shot on location at the Bialik-Rogozin School in Tel Aviv. It is produced and directed by Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon of Simon & Goodman Picture Company, whose films have received four Academy Award nominations and three Emmy Awards. It won best Short Documentary at the Academy Awards in 2011.<ref>[http://telavivfoundation.org/strangers.html Film about Tel Aviv school wins Academy Award] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110809021448/http://telavivfoundation.org/strangers.html |date=2011-08-09 }}</ref>

== Premiere and screenings == ''Strangers No More'' premiered on September 24, 2010, at the Laemmle Theatres Sunset 5 Theatre in West Hollywood, California. It has also screened in cities worldwide through the Shorts International OSCAR®-Nominated Short Films 2011 program. On January 25, 2011, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced ''Strangers No More'' as being nominated for the 83rd Academy Awards for the Best Documentary Short Subject category and later won in the February 27, 2011 ceremony.

The film made its television debut on HBO on December 5, 2011.

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== External links == *{{IMDb title|1754549}} * [http://www.strangersnomoremovie.com Official Strangers No More Site] * [http://www.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2010/20101013.html Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Press Release] * [http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/83/nominees.html Winners and Nominees for the 83rd Academy Awards] * [http://www.simongoodmanpictures.com/strangers.html Official Simon & Goodman Picture Company Site] * [http://www.denverfilm.org/festival/film/detail.aspx?id=23633&FID=54 Denver Film Festival Site] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110303140312/http://www.redroom.com/blog/talia-carner/review-academy-award-short-listed-documentary-strangers-no-more Review by author Talia Carner]

Category:Israeli short documentary films Category:Best Documentary Short Subject Academy Award winners Category:2010 short documentary films Category:2010 films Category:Documentary films about education Category:Documentary films about children Category:Education in Israel Category:Documentary films about immigration Category:Films about immigration to Israel Category:Culture in Tel Aviv Category:2010 American films Category:2010 Israeli films