Diaspora Movies

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.

A Senegalese storyteller travels to Belgium and observes the lives of African expatriates in Europe. Dreams and struggles great and small are...

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

Soon Come Back is a poetic documentary about migration’s effect on Nande's relationships to “home” in Jamaica and the US, and her...

Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to...

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...

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

The made-for-cable documentary film The Real Eve is predicated on the theory that the human race can be traced to a common ancestor. The...

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...

American Herro is the remarkable story of a young Kurdish girl who comes to America as a refugee from Iraq and lives out the American dream. 30-years...

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...

This beautiful film about the immigrant experience is a San Francisco film about Eritrea. Sephora Woldu plays "Sephora" who, like the director, is an...

Three friends drive through the mountains looking for a community of Palestinians they've only ever heard about.

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

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

Tales from Arab Detroit is a video documentary offering a fascinating glimpse into the lives and struggles of the Arab American community in the...

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...

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

During the Japanese occupation period, Koreans were forced to deport or drafted to work in other countries. Now 150 years passed, it appears around...