Displacement Movies

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...

Three children living in a displacement camp in northern Uganda compete in their country's national music and dance festival.

Bhutan: The World’s Happiest Man tells the story of Mr. Bishnu, an aging Bhutanese-American in Ohio, who dreams of returning to his homeland....

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...

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

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

A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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