Diaspora Movies

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

Set during the Lebanese revolution, WE NEVER LEFT portrays a heart-wrenching duality between Beirut and New York, an impassioned testament to 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...

Language of Mules is a poignant exploration of the haunting legacy of the Holocaust through the eyes and words of poet and author John Guzlowski....

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...

Alex (25), is a young Haitian man living in Chile who is undocumented and does not speak Spanish. After a car accident he is helped and translated by...

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...

After her husband is abducted in Kashmir, a traumatised woman flees to the United States with her young son to rebuild their lives.

Irpinia follows the journey of young West Indian dreamer Dudley as he makes his way to England in the 1960s. At 24 years old, Dudley boarded a ship...

An average of 60,000 people emigrated from Hong Kong each year in early 1990s. An absolutely personal and biased sampling of this diaspora from an...

It was the time when thousands of families left Hong Kong to look for a ‘better future’. After almost 20 years of separation, here comes...

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

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...

Ming often talks with the dolls, he meets a young lady who is going to leave Hong Kong. The young lady is determined to get a doll, Ming has decided...

Amid changing times, as friends and relatives are leaving the city one after the other, our once familiar neighbourhood is becoming foreign. Yeung...

In the aftermath of a breakup, a struggling filmmaker becomes seduced by his therapist while his ex-girlfriend grapples with her identity and where...

In 2022, when the economic crisis in her native country was at its peak, she decided to visit her family there. She turned her short trip into a...

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