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...

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

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.

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...

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Gong is a Chinese immigrant who throughout his life has faced difficulties assimilating into Thai society, yet he is regarded by people around him to...

The epic tale of an extraordinary South Asian sisterhood. This sort of two-person, sort of auto-biographical show loosely parodies its namesake...

The heir to a Burger Baron franchise, the filmmaker chases clues through rural Alberta, capturing the trials and tribulations of Arab immigrants...