Diaspora Movies

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the Land That Is Like You is a progress on the tracks of my lost past, with the contact of my mother, my grandmother and the man who I love, in a...

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

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...

The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life poetically narrates the story of a community of Iranian Americans who have made the San...

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