Displacement Movies

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Originally edited in two versions. Version I, 70 minutes; version II, 90 minutes. (The only known existing version is not Markopoulos’s edit...

“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....

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...

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

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

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.

Two long-time internet friends - Ted, the hometown artist, and Liz, a globe-hopping humanitarian. On the night of his gallery opening, on a river...

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