Diaspora Movies

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 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...

Marooned by time and place in a natural world untouched by humankind, a refugee mother and her young son live alone in a mysterious sphere. The boy...

Almost all Jews in South Africa originally came from Lithuania. As early as the 19th century, a handful of them reached the shores of South Africa....

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

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

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

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

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

A Korean-American man cares for his ailing mother and tries to master her traditional Korean dishes.

Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's...

Found footage: California in the 1950's and 60's. A young Indian couple enjoys their personal American dream come true in their home somewhere in the...

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...

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

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

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

Three lonely people trying to find solace in each other and mend misunderstandings rooted in trauma, cultural taboos and old regrets.