Movies: Diaspora

  • 2020
    His House

    His House (2020)

    His House

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    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 has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface....

    His House
  • 2008
    Salt of This Sea

    Salt of This Sea (2008)

    Salt of This Sea

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    Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya decides to journey to the country of her ancestry when she discovers that her grandfather's savings have been frozen in a Jaffa bank account since his 1948 exile. However, she soon finds that he...

    Salt of This Sea
  • 2024
    Landscape of our Body

    Landscape of our Body (2024)

    Landscape of our Body

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    As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a sense of belonging to our ancestral land, but also our own bodies which are conditioned by society to...

    Landscape of our Body
  • 2019
    Jeronimo

    Jeronimo (2019)

    Jeronimo

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    Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jerónimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban Revolution with his law school classmate Fidel Castro and becomes an accomplished government official in the Castro r...

    Jeronimo
  • 2024
    Shook

    Shook (2024)

    Shook

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    After a run-in with his estranged father, aspiring writer Ashish or "Ash" learns a secret that will force him to balance family, love and success while navigating the divide between the exciting city life he wants and his suburban reality....

    Shook
  • 1969
    Saffron Kingdom

    Saffron Kingdom (1969)

    Saffron Kingdom

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    Saffron Kingdom is a drama inspired by true events, following Masrat, a Kashmiri woman who, after her husband’s abduction, escapes to America with her son, Rizwan. Settling in Atlanta, they confront the challenges of displacement and the lingering t...

    Saffron Kingdom
  • 2019
    Hutsul Girl Ksenia

    Hutsul Girl Ksenia (2019)

    Hutsul Girl Ksenia

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    1939 . A young Ukrainian-American man Yaro comes to the Carpathian Mountains, because his father left him a fortune under the condition that he would marry a Ukrainian girl. There Yaro meets a Hutsul girl Ksenya and has to rethink his plan....

    Hutsul Girl Ksenia
  • 2023
    The Lebanese Burger Mafia

    The Lebanese Burger Mafia (2023)

    The Lebanese Burger Mafia

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    The heir to a Burger Baron franchise, the filmmaker chases clues through rural Alberta, capturing the trials and tribulations of Arab immigrants while uncovering the saga of a rogue fast-food chain with mysterious origins and a cult following....

    The Lebanese Burger Mafia
  • 2002
    Cuban Rafters

    Cuban Rafters (2002)

    Cuban Rafters

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    The story of Cuban refugees who risked their lives in homemade rafts to reach the United States, and what life is like for those who succeed....

    Cuban Rafters
  • 2017
    Night Working

    Night Working (2017)

    Night Working

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    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 the sea together for the weekend. However, the factory manager only forces Lin to work overtime on th...

    Night Working
  • 2023
    Coming Home Again

    Coming Home Again (2023)

    Coming Home Again

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    A Korean-American man cares for his ailing mother and tries to master her traditional Korean dishes....

    Coming Home Again
  • 1989
    Ôrí

    Ôrí (1989)

    Ôrí

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

    Ôrí
  • 2023
    Soon Come Back

    Soon Come Back (2023)

    Soon Come Back

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

    Soon Come Back
  • 2007
    Blood and Water

    Blood and Water (2007)

    Blood and Water

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    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 everything." A year later, Anton returns to Sri Lanka. With him is his nephew, award-winning filmmaker Ro...

    Blood and Water
  • 2023
    Razões Africanas

    Razões Africanas (2023)

    Razões Africanas

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    Razões Africanas
  • 2013
    Arab & Broud

    Arab & Broud (2013)

    Arab & Broud

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    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 well-intentioned efforts lead to humorous situations, reflecting on cultural identity and community dynamics...

    Arab & Broud
  • 2012
    Exile: A Myth Unearthed

    Exile: A Myth Unearthed (2012)

    Exile: A Myth Unearthed

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    This feature documentary looks at new evidence that suggests the majority of the Jewish people may not have been exiled following the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD. Travelling from Galilee to Jerusalem and the catacombs of Rome, the film asks us to reth...

    Exile: A Myth Unearthed
  • 1959
    Our Algeria

    Our Algeria (1959)

    Our Algeria

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    "Djazaïrouna", produced by the cinema service of the Provisional Government of the Algerian Republic (GPRA), is a montage film intended to inform the international community at the UN in 1959 on the objectives pursued by the Algerian resistance durin...

    Our Algeria
  • 2021
    Khtobtogone

    Khtobtogone (2021)

    Khtobtogone

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    Khtobtogone begins as a love story between protagonist Zine and the girl of his dreams, Bulma. But in introspective narration, Zine reflects more broadly on masculinity and coming of age in Marseille’s Maghrebi community....

    Khtobtogone
  • 2002
    The Real Eve

    The Real Eve (2002)

    The Real Eve

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    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 mitochondrial DNA of one prehistoric woman, who lived in Africa, has according to this theory been passed down fr...

    The Real Eve