Diaspora Movies

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the...

Thousands of Hongkongers, still living in the shadow of the 2019 protests, are immigrating to the UK to forge a freer future. This film documents...

The untold tragedy and scandal of what happened to a vibrant community of immigrants from the Cape Verde Islands in the Fox Point section of...

Kuen is a lounge singer on Temple Street. Her son Kakei, now a university student, returns to Hong Kong for just a few days after emigrating to...

Im Hussein and Im Elias decide to start an organization for young Arab Americans with the goal of projecting a positive image of Arabs. Their...

Returning home, a queer filmmaker finds their mother awakened to a new understanding beyond patriarchy, as the two reconcile amidst a past shaped by...

An African and African American debate on the ongoing diaspora war within the black community. Set entirely across the centuries-old East African...

Is My Living in Vain is a meditation on the continuing history and emancipatory potential of the Black church as a space of belonging, affirmation...

In ‘what does it feel like to live inside a pomegranate?’ Iranian-American filmmaker Kamyar Mohsenin transforms a giant pomegranate into...

A short animation using the individual entries from within The Archive of the Irish in Britain as a new entry on each frame of the character's...

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structural, systemic, and social passivity.

Down in Haiti, there is a lady named "Madan Paul". Madan Paul belongs to "Mesie Paul", her husband. Brenò is a poor guy with abslutely nothing...

In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their homeland to save their lives, and in the...

The desert rose is a love story between two children who live in the occupied area of the Western Sahara until they're separated because of the...

Tales of the Diaspora is the debut film from xxiivanu productions, and was conceived as a love letter to Pasifika youth around the world, as they...

A Colombian actress named Zahinabu is finally having her first audition in New York, for a Latina role. It could be the opportunity that she has been...

yaya/ayat explores identities, being lost in translation and distance. But at its core it's about the filmmaker longing for a relationship with her...