Roots Movies

Glorious Curse tells the story of musician James Chandler, who achieves his dream of being a musician but loses what he cares about most. It is a...

Malika was supposed to meet her biological mother that day, but she prefers to follow Mimoun, an old Algerian man struggling to come to terms with...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first journey to Algeria. Accompanied by the memory of...

A filmmaker embarks on a journey to his ancestral homeland, seeking to reconcile his present reality with the depths of his ancestral past.

When his father has to move back to Italy, Thijn is in conflict because he wants to stay with his friends in The Netherlands. Do his problems stay...

Ama, the daughter of Senegalese asylum seekers, feels completely Dutch. When Ama's mother and brother are arrested, Ama sets off in search of her...

A poem about a flower going through an existential crisis

Constantin is a Moldovan young man who emigrated to Italy when he was only a child. Right before his marriage, he decides to go back to Moldova to...

Two friends, one Black and one white, journey to their Southern ancestral homes, exploring reparations' meaning. Their travels uncover opportunities...

Algiers. From the port to the souks, passing through the Jardin d'Essai, Dominique Cabrera transports us to the land where she was born, on the other...

Intimate discussion with the inhabitants of Kfarbaal, a village tucked in the mountains above Byblos. We hear them share their experiences,...

Striving to build a successful life in London, Reza places an ad in a peculiar newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight....

The stories of four Iranian families who emigrate to Canada and the city they leave behind. As departure time approaches, social spaces become places...

Arif journeys between Zanzibar and Oslo, exploring his roots and personal identity. Guided by the spiral of a seashell — a symbol of past,...

A short documentary on a grandson returning home to visit his aging grandmother who was crying to see him on the phone.

After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a...

The characters of "Marcas do Pastado" live new adventures following the story with surprises and fun and exciting facts. The film explores the...