Diaspora Movies

Part of a series of promotional films commissioned by Romania's National Tourism Office in the early 1970s with the aim of reconnecting diasporic ...

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

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...

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...

When the 2004 tsunami hit the coast of Sri Lanka, 65-year-old Anton Ambrose's wife and daughter were killed. "In five minutes," he says, "I lost...

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...

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...

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

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...

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....

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...

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

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...

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...

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

The People Closest To Heaven is a short documentary that shines a spotlight on Himalayan-British youth, embracing and reclaiming their heritage...