Displacement Movies

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger...

Mathew Devassy, a retired bank manager decides to enter local panchayat elections. Unexpectedly, his wife Omana, shocks everyone by filing for...

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...

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

“An Untitled Film” by George Alshevskij-Jones is a short documentary/visual essay about the struggles of moving to seek a better future...

This feature-length documentary by Alanis Obomsawin examines the plight of Native people who come to Montreal searching for jobs and a better life....

Amidst the urban transformation driven by progress, bulldozers dismantle 'illegal' settlements, leaving countless lives shattered. In the aftermath...

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...

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...

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

Tashi is a lonely single man living on the edge of a small town in Arunachal Pradesh. The town is slowly being inundated by water from a nearby dam...

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

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

Seven political activists from Israel come together in a theater in Tel Aviv and read from the transcripts of government meetings dating back to...

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