Diaspora Movies

A look at the Brazilian black movement between 1977 and 1988, going by the relationship between Brazil and Africa.

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that...

In the summer of 1994, a team of public television reporters filmed and interviewed seven Cubans a few days before their risky venture of setting out...

Maysa unfolds over a single afternoon as a young woman and her stoic middle eastern mother navigate the quiet tension of a long-held silence. As...

A short drama about a library cleaner who plans a final return to Nigeria, his birth country.

In 1915, a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night, he learns that his twin...

Expecting their first child, a married couple struggles to find romance and connection while building a new life together in America.

Khtobtogone begins as a love story between protagonist Zine and the girl of his dreams, Bulma. But in introspective narration, Zine reflects more...

Two semi-studious students living in 'Korea-Town' are interrupted & intrigued by the actions of a girl in a nearby building, witnessed via CCTV,...

When a Filipino teen is found fatally shot on the streets of New Jersey, the investigation into his death reveals the struggles of the...

This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide...

In Jaan the filmmaker uses her mother’s forbidden cassettes and dance to tell the stories and show the spirit of Afghan women across...

In Japan, a Filipina migrant is chosen by a haunted dress to be its new owner and is manipulated into hunting down the murderer of the previous owner.

Athena must navigate fraught cultural and family ties after a sudden break up forces her back into her childhood home with her disapproving mother...

Young African-Brazilian Miguel drives across the country in search of a long-lost relative to find out about his ancestry. However, a deeper...

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various criminal offenses.

"Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to...

Where you are born is called “hometown”. What do you call where you are buried? A story about 8 North Koreans who went to Moscow Film...