Urban space is at the centre of these four films, formally attentive explorations of various intersections of gentrification, migration, and empire, from Chicago to Miami, Bangalore to London.

Employing a variety of cinematic forms and strategies, the five films in this programme engender lingering, often poetic diasporic dialogues—between here and there, then and now.

Blood ties are centered in these four films, fictional explorations of the often fraught relationships between kith and kin—and one non-fiction twist on the old pledge, til death do us part.

Filmmaking as process is at the heart of these five films, memorably imaginative attempts at working through a variety of themes, and towards new ways of understanding.

Ancestral echoes reverberate across the films in this programme, embodying various forms of resistance and resilience, from the Florida Everglades to a Jamaican sugar plantation to the Amazon rainforest.