Displacement Movies

A delve into the plight of Bhutanese-Nepali refugees who settled in the Ohio-Pennsylvania area and fought alienation and displacement.

A displaced black queer boy finds refuge in his city's underground Kiki Ballroom scene.

This short documentary chronicles a four-month period between 1979 and 1980 when residents of Hawaii's Sand Island "squatter" community attempted to...

A diminishing water supply is driving people from their land in a remote region of Nepal. The younger generation of the Gurung family adapts by...

In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Canadian government and left to their own devices in...

Moving to Mars charts the epic journey made by two Burmese families from a vast refugee camp on the Thai/Burma border to their new homes in the UK....

The documentary is a five country-based sequences featuring stories about conflict, migration and the experience of exile; Tibetan women refugees in...

An unsentimental yet compassionate film about building a community to increase a sense of belonging despite living the worst times ever imagined.

Tell Them We Were Here is an inspirational feature-length documentary about eight artists who show us why art is vital to a healthy society and...

Portrait of a Russian village near Kaliningrad and its multiethnic inhabitants.

Our place is on fire and we are on fire with it. If that, what we are, is not any longer and an eternal search begins - for who we are, where we...

A documentary film crew follows a young Iranian girl, Roya, after her request for asylum was denied and is forced to enter an illegal life on streets...

An intimate look into the lives of individuals experiencing displacement and relocation amidst the European migration crisis. A journey of strangers...

Forced by the dangerous state of his homeland, Perghuzat moved to Berlin. He is alone, working small jobs day and night to survive. The profound...