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His House(2020)

1h 33min | Horror, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 493 votes)

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.

Directed by Remi Weekes - With Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Matt Smith, Javier Botet
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Salt of This Sea(2008)

1h 49min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Born in Brooklyn to Palestinian refugee parents, Soraya (Suheir Hammad) 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 her simple plan is a complicated undertaking — one that takes her further from her comfort zone than she'd imagined.

Directed by Annemarie Jacir - With Suheir Hammad, Saleh Bakri, Danny Glover, Ishai Golan, Juliano Mer-Khamis, Edna Blilious, ...
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Black or Latina(2019)

15min | Drama
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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 waiting for since she arrived to US. But the audition takes a different direction when the casting group needs to consider the great audition from this Latina woman who doesn't look like a "latina".

The Lebanese Burger Mafia(2023)

1h 43min | Documentary

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.

Coming Home Again(2023)

1h 26min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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

Directed by Wayne Wang

Arada(2021)

1h 23min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of three Turkish men. They all grew up in Switzerland and all got deported after various criminal offenses.

Ôrí(1989)

1h 40min | Documentary
4.1/5 (with 2 votes)

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

The Real Eve(2002)

1h 43min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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 from generation to generation over a span of 150,000 years, supplying the "chemical energy" to all humankind.

Jeronimo(2019)

1h 40min | Documentary
5.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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 regime, until he rediscovers his ethnic roots and dedicates his later life to reconstructing his Korean Cuban identity. After Jerónimo's death, younger Korean Cubans recognize his legacy, but it is not until they are presented with the opportunity to visit South Korea that questions about their mixed identity resurface.

Moon Rabbit(2018)

15min | Drama

Seven-year-old Rio visits her grandparents in Japan for the first time. She observes the beauty and unfamiliarity of the household, sensing a distance between her American family and the Japanese relatives. When her mother, Seiko, reveals an open secret during tea, the children are excused from the room and something happens behind closed doors.

Names Live Nowhere(1994)

1h 16min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

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

Salt Bridge(2019)

Drama

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

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Tales from Arab Detroit(2023)

45min | Documentary

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.

The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey(2003)

2h | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

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 claims that Africa was populated by only a few thousand people that some deserted their homeland in a conquest that has resulted in global domination.

"Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?": A Cape Verdean American Story(2006)

1h 23min | Documentary

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 Providence, Rhode Island who were forcibly displaced by urban renewal to make way for fancy coffee shops, antique stores and elegantly restored houses. Poignant, heartfelt and warm, in a timeless snapshot SKFPR captures the essence, spirit and heart of a community whose history was erased before it was written.

Life is Fare(2018)

1h 2min | Fantasy, Music, History

This beautiful film about the immigrant experience is a San Francisco film about Eritrea. Sephora Woldu plays "Sephora" who, like the director, is an architecture student but also a filmmaker. She is pitching to her traditional mother a film she wants to make about a man who fled their home country and ended up in San Francisco. As a recently arrived immigrant, he is terribly homesick for his native Eritrea, but will not admit it due to unease towards speaking ill of the country; and more consciously in hesitance of admitting hard truths about his culture and himself. "It’s colorful and visually whimsical in a way that can only be described as if the Wizard of Oz went to Africa," said Woldu.

Post Term(2023)

16min | Drama, Romance / Love

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

Reparation(2022)

30min | Mystery, Drama

Two semi-studious students living in 'Korea-Town' are interrupted & intrigued by the actions of a girl in a nearby building, witnessed via CCTV, whilst each trying to come to terms with important subjects in their university projects [one Korean related: the Sewol ferry tragedy, and one British: the Grenfell tower incident], as well as their own life challenges in this claustrophobic tragicomedy of alienation, helping hands & secretive students. Is all really what it seems?