Diaspora Movies

  • 2006

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

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

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    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
    nor any memories of the turning backs

    nor any memories of the turning backs

    nor any memories of the turning backs

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    [poem_body_memory_voice] None of them belong to each other. All of them belong to themselves. A layered accumulation —___- a poetic exercise...

    nor any memories of the turning backs
  • 2023
    Post Term

    Post Term

    Post Term

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    Expecting their first child, a married couple struggles to find romance and connection while building a new life together in America.

    Post Term
  • 2003
    Biyè Vèt

    Biyè Vèt

    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...

    Biyè Vèt
  • 1997
    Diasporama: Dead Air

    Diasporama: Dead Air

    Diasporama: Dead Air

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    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...

    Diasporama: Dead Air
  • 2019
    Salt Bridge

    Salt Bridge

    Salt Bridge

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    Haunted by his tragic past, Basant befriends a married woman even as the migrant community of Salt Bridge frowns upon this relationship.

    Salt Bridge
  • 2002
    The Real Eve

    The Real Eve

    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...

    The Real Eve
  • 2019
    Jeronimo

    Jeronimo

    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...

    Jeronimo
  • 2024
    Jabal

    Jabal

    Jabal

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    Three friends drive through the mountains looking for a community of Palestinians they've only ever heard about.

    Jabal
  • 2025
    Diaspora

    Diaspora

    Diaspora

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    Diaspora
  • 2025
    Casa de bambú, piso de cemento

    Casa de bambú, piso de cemento

    Casa de bambú, piso de cemento

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    Casa de bambú, piso de cemento
  • 2026
    what does it feel like to live inside a pomegranate?

    what does it feel like to live inside a pomegranate?

    what does it feel like to live inside a pomegranate?

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    In ‘what does it feel like to live inside a pomegranate?’ Iranian-American filmmaker Kamyar Mohsenin transforms a giant pomegranate into...

    what does it feel like to live inside a pomegranate?
  • 2019
    Goodbye My Love, North Korea

    Goodbye My Love, North Korea

    Goodbye My Love, North Korea

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    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...

    Goodbye My Love, North Korea
  • 2022
    Simon Says, Simon Says

    Simon Says, Simon Says

    Simon Says, Simon Says

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

    Simon Says, Simon Says
  • 2021
    Clamp 1 Get 1 free

    Clamp 1 Get 1 free

    Clamp 1 Get 1 free

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    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...

    Clamp 1 Get 1 free
  • 2022
    Is My Living In Vain

    Is My Living In Vain

    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...

    Is My Living In Vain
  • 2018
    Bright Spring Days

    Bright Spring Days

    Bright Spring Days

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    Kuen is a lounge singer on Temple Street. Her son Kakei, now a university student, returns to Hong Kong for just a few days after emigrating to...

    Bright Spring Days
  • 2019
    Black or Latina

    Black or Latina

    Black or Latina

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    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
  • 1973
    Letter from Romania

    Letter from Romania

    Letter from Romania

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    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
  • 2019
    Diaspora: Arirang Road

    Diaspora: Arirang Road

    Diaspora: Arirang Road

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

    Diaspora: Arirang Road