Movies and TvShows featuring "african-diaspora" theme.

A short drama about a library cleaner who plans a final return to Nigeria, his birth country.

When men take up arms to go against their brothers, women have to take up gravediggers’ shovels. Ceebla (Fardouza Moussa Egueh, who we also saw in Gravedigger’s Wife), refuses to bargain for the cost of her labour. When her grave finally finds a taker, the revenue logic takes an unexpected twist. The Earth Has Ears is a civil war film without gunfire. It shows how the absurdity of war also turns everyday life at the home front irrational. / MSFF

Young African-Brazilian Miguel drives across the country in search of a long-lost relative to find out about his ancestry. However, a deeper understanding emerges through his encounters along the way.

In the furnace of Algiers, the camera follows and accompanies Ibrahim, Adam, and Ismael, originally from sub-Saharan Africa, in an irregular situation who live in this hotel with the predestined name. They live from odd jobs. One is an elevator operator in a building, the second is a shoemaker and the third works in the construction sector. The other side of immigration from sub-Saharan Africa. Behind the statistics hide people, bodies waiting to be able to start another life elsewhere. A hotel thus becomes a transit point in which stories and hopes mingle, a place which seems suspended in time and space. A static journey waiting for another to begin.

Nwa is a candid, emotional, coming-of-age film about Frantz, a first-generation Haitian-American boy, torn by the decision to get the haircut he knows his strict immigrant father would approve of, or a trendy cut connecting him to the Black American culture he's warned him not to embrace.

Sankofa is a powerful drama that explores the themes of slavery, identity, and freedom. It follows the story of Mona, a modern-day African-American model who finds herself transported back in time to a Caribbean plantation in the 18th century. As she experiences the horrors of slavery firsthand, Mona begins to confront her own past and the legacy of her ancestors. Through her journey of self-realization, she learns the power of resistance and the importance of reclaiming one's own history.

A French woman of African descent manages to escape after being arrested in the Dominican Republic. She finds shelter in the most dangerous district of Santo Domingo, where she is taken in by a group of children. By becoming their protégée and maternal figure, she will see her destiny change inexorably.

Soura stumbles upon a bluebell field and is left in a haunting trance, plagued by disturbing visions. She returns to the field, desperate for a solution, and meets a girl suffering a similar fate.

Harriet's extraordinary gift to absorb and take on anyone's pain, makes her money but could ultimately destroy her.

Why do drugs, crime, HIV, poor education, inferiority complexes, low expectations, poverty, corruption, poor health, and underdevelopment plague people of African descent around the world? Why, 500 years after the onset of Slavery and subsequent Colonialism, do Africans still struggle for basic freedom? Filmed in more than twenty countries across five continents, 500 YEARS LATER examines the atrocities that uprooted Africans from their cultures and homeland. Infused with the spirit and music of liberation, it chronicles the struggle of a people who fight for the most essential human right: freedom.

The film features a group of Afro-Mexican musicians from the Pacific Coast of Mexico. They live with the shore, speaking through their instruments and microphones about the traditions they cherish and the love of their homeland. Their music provides a space for the film to explore, encompassing both the historical depth and cultural characteristics of the local civilization, and paying homage to the people, the sea, and the land that exists here. Here, music not only flows with sheer beauty and passion, but is also the language that unites people.

THE LOWER 9: A STORY OF HOME showcases four determined Lower Ninth Ward residents who share their most intimate stories of home, as they resume their lives years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged their neighborhood. Each story finds a voice in a narrative that intersperses contemporary interviews, abstract cinematography of destruction, and powerful scenes of present, everyday lives.

By poet Olivia Douglass, this work has been commissioned by Other Parties in response to Bushman. to, from, gets to the heart of the tensions between the estranged and embodied experiences of the African diaspora.

Idea is a dark comedy short film set in Africa, exploring the themes of African diaspora and art. The story follows a group of artists as they navigate their creative journey and delve into the complexities of identity, culture, and self-expression. With a unique blend of wit and satire, Idea offers a thought-provoking exploration of the African experience.