Movies: Diaspora

  • 2013
    Arab & Broud

    Arab & Broud (2013)

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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
  • 2020
    Community of Parting

    Community of Parting (2020)

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    Community of Parting
  • 2016
    Royal Cafe

    Royal Cafe (2016)

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    Royal Cafe
  • 2003
    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey (2003)

    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey

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    Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer Wells, one of a group of scientists studying the origin of human life, offers evidence and theories to support such a thesis in this PBS special. He c...

    The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
  • 2024
    To Spark a Wildfire

    To Spark a Wildfire (2024)

    To Spark a Wildfire

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    Three lonely people trying to find solace in each other and mend misunderstandings rooted in trauma, cultural taboos and old regrets....

    To Spark a Wildfire
  • 2023
    Razões Africanas

    Razões Africanas (2023)

    Razões Africanas

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    Razões Africanas
  • 1994
    Names Live Nowhere

    Names Live Nowhere (1994)

    Names Live Nowhere

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    A Senegalese storyteller travels to Belgium and observes the lives of African expatriates in Europe. Dreams and struggles great and small are explored....

    Names Live Nowhere
  • 2023
    The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii

    The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii (2023)

    The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii

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    This film travels over open books, looted objects and postcards to look for the imperial foundations of the world in which we live. Within this wide landscape the film focuses on the destruction of the Jewish Muslim world that existed in North Africa...

    The world like a jewel in the hand: unlearning imperial plunder ii
  • 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
  • 1969
    Irpinia

    Irpinia (1969)

    Irpinia

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    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 named Irpinia in search of a better life in England, the so-called motherland. Now 86, Dudley reflects...

    Irpinia
  • 1969
    Tales from Arab Detroit

    Tales from Arab Detroit (1969)

    Tales from Arab Detroit

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    Tales from Arab Detroit is a video documentary offering a fascinating glimpse into the lives and struggles of the Arab American community in the Detroit tri-county area....

    Tales from Arab Detroit
  • 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
  • 1969
    Roots In The Wind

    Roots In The Wind (1969)

    Roots In The Wind

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    In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their homeland to save their lives, and in the meantime, a huge wave of them immigrated to Iran....

    Roots In The Wind
  • 2022
    Is My Living In Vain

    Is My Living In Vain (2022)

    Is My Living In Vain

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    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 and community organising. Combining shot footage, oral histories and archive material from both sides o...

    Is My Living In Vain
  • 2003
    Biyè Vèt

    Biyè Vèt (2003)

    Biyè Vèt

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    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 and all he can think of is to be with Madan Paul. Breno poses as a Diaspora to win Madan Paul....

    Biyè Vèt
  • 2009
    American Herro

    American Herro (2009)

    American Herro

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    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 later, traveling the globe working for Condoleeza Rice, U.S. Diplomat Herro Mustafa invites her firs...

    American Herro
  • 1969
    Intrusive Thoughts

    Intrusive Thoughts (1969)

    Intrusive Thoughts

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

    Intrusive Thoughts
  • 2024
    Donde comienzas tú

    Donde comienzas tú (2024)

    Donde comienzas tú

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    Two young Puerto Ricans, childhood best friends, decide to spend one last day together before one of them moves to the United States in search of a better life. As their departure approaches, they begin to realize that saying goodbye isn't as easy as...

    Donde comienzas tú
  • 2009
    In the Land That Is Like You

    In the Land That Is Like You (2009)

    In the Land That Is Like You

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    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 country which escapes from me and retains me, Lebanon....

    In the Land That Is Like You
  • 1969
    Una Isla

    Una Isla (1969)

    Una Isla

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    Una Isla