Royal Cafe (2016)

Una pareja de refugiados de Sudán, un país arrasado por la guerra, trata de sobrevivir en un pequeño pueblo de Inglaterra hasta que descubren que allí les aguarda un peligroso mal.

Narra la historia de dos palestinos, Soraya y Emad, con vidas completamente distintas pero que tienen en común un sentimiento de marginalidad, que se conocen en Palestina en el momento en que uno (Soraya) desea quedarse y el otro huir (Emad). Soraya tiene veintiocho años. Nació y se educó en Brooklyn, pero ha decidido regresar a Palestina, país del que su familia tuvo que exiliarse en 1948. Desde su llegada a Ramallah, intenta recuperar el dinero de sus abuelos. Por su parte Emad, nacido en los territorios palestinos, ha conocido toda su vida la ocupación y la realidad palestina, y tiene como máximo sueño obtener un visado para ir a estudiar a Canadá y marcharse de allí. (FILMAFFINITY)

En 1987 el mundo se paralizó cuando la ciencia anunció que todos descendíamos de una misma línea ancestral: se trataba de la verdadera Eva genética, una mujer africana que vivió hace 150 mil año en el este de Africa. Descubriremos cómo la raza humana se fue expandiendo por todo el mundo y porqué nuestros rasgos físicos varían según las razas. Con la colaboración de gráficos generados por ordenador y la opinión de grandes científicos veremos que la ciencia es una cadena ininterrumpida que nos une a nuestro pasado a todos por...

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.

A story of diaspora. The film criticises the myth of Swiss neutrality, which violently masks structural, systemic, and social passivity.

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

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

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.

A Tibetan immigrant returns to her home country to witness the Chinese occupation.

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.

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.

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

Where you are born is called “hometown”. What do you call where you are buried? A story about 8 North Koreans who went to Moscow Film School in 1952, and sought political asylum in 1958 after denouncing KIM Ilsung. Their lives as Koreans and as filmmakers are captured through images from Moscow to Kazakhstan.

En 1977, Raquel Gerber inició una investigación para una película sobre la emancipación de la población negra de Brasil. Tres años más tarde conoció a Beatriz Nascimento quien, en busca de su propia identidad, estaba haciendo una investigación histórica sobre la relación entre las culturas negras de África y Brasil. Ellos decidieron cooperar. El resultado es una película sobre las organizaciones negras y conferencias en los años 1970 y 80, por un lado, y sobre un estudio algo emocional y poético por Beatriz Nascimento de la continuidad cultural del brasileño negro por el otro. Sin embargo, la película es mucho más que esto: es también un intento de arrojar nueva luz sobre la historia de los negros, y así contribuir a la emancipación negra.

During the Japanese occupation period, Koreans were forced to deport or drafted to work in other countries. Now 150 years passed, it appears around 7million of those people and their families are spread in 170 countries. There, a world-famous Korean-Japanese musician Yang Bang Ean follows the pathways of Korean diasporas as an inspiration, and performs his cross over music concert called ‘ARIRANG ROAD’.

Almost all Jews in South Africa originally came from Lithuania. As early as the 19th century, a handful of them reached the shores of South Africa. Those who made the trip became successful artists, entrepreneurs and activists, while those who stayed behind were massacred by Nazis and Lithuanian collaborators. The film explores how these bittersweet circumstances have constructed the identities of South African Litvaks. Personal recounts and anecdotes paint the tragedy of the Holocaust, hopes of a new life in South Africa, as well as unique bonds for the future. (Lithuanian Film Center)

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney Passé, who has previously worked with powerhouse music video director Khalil Joseph. Reading from her own works, Lincoln’s voice sets the tone for a film that explores the African American experience through fathers and their sons.

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 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.