Culture Clash Movies

As so often, also here it's rather about allusion than description. This also applies to the persons represented. Flat silhouettes of people. Their...

An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polarization and distrust through past the past and...

Romantic Comedy about Alper, an unsuccessful Turkish actor from Berlin, Germany, who has to pretend to be an Italian to win his first role and the...

An unlikely romance develops between a Lakota warrior and a young black woman at an 1890s black college.

A young half-breed boy, the son of a hockey player and an Indian woman, is adopted by a Jewish shopkeeper, but finds himself torn between the...

Jade Li is a feisty, 20-something Chinese Canadian, trying to achieve that happy medium between giving in to her parent's wishes and fulfilling her...

This award-winning feature examines a minority group that is discounted and often ignored by mainstream media. Sharing a common past, many African...

Van der Merwe, a bumbling farmer from a traditional Afrikaans family, struggles to keep his family together when his daughter returns from England...

Tells the true story of American Gwen Terasaki, who falls in love with, then marries a Japanese diplomat. When World War II breaks out, they...

An American elementary school program from the 1970s, Man: A Course of Study (MACOS), looked to the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic to help students see...

Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home...

Cultural identity, women’s independence and the pressure to conform to British norms are the subjects of this bold and acute feature, which...

Documentary about an eclectic group of students from all corners of the planet at one of the world's top industrial design schools in Sweden's...

An American girl's beautiful song in a lonely New York karaoke bar catches the attention of an ultra-hip Japanese boy. Convinced she is his dream...

A young cowboy travels across the pond to seek an inheritance left by his estranged father, but instead discovers some hidden truths about his family.

Four young people from Tanzania and Cameroon complete a year of weltwärts voluntary service in Germany. For each of them, it is their first...

Under the influence of a hallucinogenic cactus, a couple of French comes to introduce, like a virus, into a Mexican landscape whose practices, codes...

American television programming dominates around the world at the expense of regional cultural voices.

A young boy has just moved to America from a foreign country with his mother. He tries to adjust to his new life, specifically in his school. He goes...