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After the near death of her grandfather, Chinese Canadian filmmaker Michelle Wong embarks on a personal journey back home to her small town of St. Paul, Alberta to speak to her grandparents about their journey from China
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After the near death of her grandfather, Chinese Canadian filmmaker Michelle Wong embarks on a personal journey back home to her small town of St. Paul, Alberta to speak to her grandparents about their journey from China
A man and his wife are partners in a small business, a service station, that is struggling to survive financially. They are visited by his brother, a divorced middle-aged man, who has taken a break from his stressful car
During a party at her house, when a young woman comes out to the backyard, a series of interactions with her friends leads her to question if she is making the right choice to go back to Iran to visit a dying family memb
A Samoan male, Sione, and a Palagi New Zealand female,Sarah, meet while studying at Wellington's Victoria University. A relationship develops quickly, but each finds the other's culture a hard adjustment. Friends and fam
As twilight deepens, memory, scent, and silence drift through the air— where clouds, birds, and feelings quietly return home.
A double exposure, a portrait of a body, a house that oscillates between its narrative past and its literal presence. The melodramatic, 1950s films of amateur filmmaker Joan Thurber Baldwin are psychically projected onto
Descendants of Cudjo Lewis and Gumpa Lee, survivors of the last American slave ship, embark on a journey to fulfill their ancestors' dream of returning to their ancestral home, accompanied by National Geographic Explorer
A Bengali migrant worker, Bimal, and his Chinese migrant friend, Han Ming, strike the lottery with their shared bet. The duo encounter deceit, betrayal and the challenge of avoiding a nationwide manhunt to claim what is
Last year, my grandfather died. The film begins with the words "Last year, my grandfather died," and the filmmaker turns his attention to his grandmother, who is left behind. She says she could die at any time, but she l
An impassive young student, in a state of idolization, went from taking care of his unusual pets to killing most of them in a day.
75-year-old Enola Niaga finds comfort in writing letters back and forth with her sweetheart.
Fatih Akin sets out in search of his family roots and paints a portrait of his Turkish family. In 1965, his father came to Germany from Turkey to try his luck as a guest worker. He actually only wanted to stay for two ye
BTS documentary of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Part 2 of Return Home documentary trilogy.
In March 2011, the world was stunned by the nuclear disaster in Fukushima. Today, the people of Iidate, a town outside the 30km radiation exclusion zone around the nuclear power plant, are still suffering. The direction
After the death of a cultural icon and tribal chieftain in Bukidnon, his adopted son takes on his cause to preserve their cultural heritage through music.
For Palestinian expatriate Edward Said, the return to his homeland amounted to a painful inquiry into his past. This program captures the interconnection between Said's personal recollections and the shared memory of the
“One Day I Will Return Home" is the story of Taiwanese veteran, Lai Xing-yang and his imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp. Although the story contains nothing that pushed the events along or heroics of any kind, his 96