Diaspora Movies

  • 2024
    Indelible Identities

    Indelible Identities

    Indelible Identities

    02024HD

    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...

    Indelible Identities
  • 2014
    Desert rose

    Desert rose

    Desert rose

    02014HD

    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...

    Desert rose
  • 2003
    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

    7.22003HD

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

    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
  • 2013
    Arab & Broud

    Arab & Broud

    Arab & Broud

    02013HD

    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...

    Arab & Broud
  • 1970
    Last Day of Us

    Last Day of Us

    Last Day of Us

    01970HD

    Returning to sell her old family home, a Korean Guatemalan immigrant confronts buried memories and lingering emotions, ultimately finding closure...

    Last Day of Us
  • 2022
    Is My Living In Vain

    Is My Living In Vain

    Is My Living In Vain

    02022HD

    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...

    Is My Living In Vain
  • 1970
    yaya/ayat

    yaya/ayat

    yaya/ayat

    01970HD

    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...

    yaya/ayat
  • 2019
    Jeronimo

    Jeronimo

    Jeronimo

    8.72019HD

    Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jerónimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban...

    Jeronimo
  • 2022
    How to Build a House out of Wreckage and Rags

    How to Build a House out of Wreckage and Rags

    How to Build a House out of Wreckage and Rags

    02022HD

    Found footage: California in the 1950's and 60's. A young Indian couple enjoys their personal American dream come true in their home somewhere in the...

    How to Build a House out of Wreckage and Rags
  • 1973
    Letter from Romania

    Letter from Romania

    Letter from Romania

    01973HD

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

    Letter from Romania
  • 2021
    You Wouldn't Get It...

    You Wouldn't Get It...

    You Wouldn't Get It...

    02021HD

    Jaira, Chelsea, and Alecz catch up with their friend, Sujee, who lives in Busan, Korea. Sujee is lonely and seeks people who understand her struggles...

    You Wouldn't Get It...
  • 2023
    Soon Come Back

    Soon Come Back

    Soon Come Back

    02023HD

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

    Soon Come Back
  • 2018
    Where are the African Gods?

    Where are the African Gods?

    Where are the African Gods?

    02018HD

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

    Where are the African Gods?
  • 2006

    "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?": A Cape Verdean American Story

    "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?": A Cape Verdean American Story

    62006HD

    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...

  • 2025
    Eastern White

    Eastern White

    Eastern White

    102025HD

    This Short Animated film is a personal project that aims to make the viewer experience a glimpse into the feelings, emotions and experiences that an...

    Eastern White
  • 2026
    Bao

    Bao

    Bao

    02026HD

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

    Bao
  • 2019
    Bruja

    Bruja

    Bruja

    02019HD

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

    Bruja
  • 2019
    Black or Latina

    Black or Latina

    Black or Latina

    102019HD

    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...

    Black or Latina
  • 1970
    mother tongue; bahasa ibu

    mother tongue; bahasa ibu

    mother tongue; bahasa ibu

    01970HD

    Athena must navigate fraught cultural and family ties after a sudden break up forces her back into her childhood home with her disapproving mother...

    mother tongue; bahasa ibu
  • 1970
    Roots In The Wind

    Roots In The Wind

    Roots In The Wind

    01970HD

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

    Roots In The Wind