Leaving Home Movies

Two young lovers, Emeka and Fola, who dream of leaving Nigeria for a better life abroad. Their parents have warned them not to share their plans with...

The son of a wealthy farmer loves a simple maid, for which he's booted out of the house by his father.

Dodd, a freshly signed baseball player struggling to say goodbye to his hometown, spends his final night trying to reconnect with an old lover.

During the summer before college, two best friends are stressed about the fate of their friendship as they search for a mysterious street artist...

A young woman is forced to leave her apartment for reasons beyond her control. As she evacuates on her last day there, she analyzes the emotional...

About the emotional upheaval of a Palestinian couple's last moments before leaving voluntarily Jerusalem, their native city, to forge a brighter...

A three-reel silent drama about an ambitious young man leaving behind his beloved in Japan to study abroad at the University of California, Berkeley.

Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his...

A man returns to a hacienda, lost in time and history, where, as a child or teenager, in his budding career as a writer, he left a typewriter stored...

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

Two teenage boys escape an unhappy home, embarking on a perilous journey of self-discovery that takes them deep into the Newfoundland wilderness.

Late 40’s after the war. Strange languaged and religioned immigrants fleeing from Karelia region are hated by Finns in the countryside. 19-year...

A young polar bear leaves home for the first time, but finds it difficult to bid her mother farewell.

One last thing to share down at the river.

During a road trip to the airport, Fade questions whether her niece’s departure from Nigeria is truly for the best.

Wajdi and Maia are spending their last days together before Wajdi travels to a new start away from the Lebanese situation.

Sabine and Natacha are 22. They live ‘here’, in the sticks, next door to each other. One day, Natacha has an opportunity: leave...

A girl, her father, and an AI system work to preserve the remnants of plant life in a post-apocalyptic ice age.