(Dis)placement: Fluctuations of Home, Part II

This series continues our summer 2025 exploration of what it means to be housed — and to truly feel at home — in an age of ongoing displacement. Part Two expands that inquiry to a global scale, gathering independent, experimental, documentary and narrative works from four continents. Together, these films trace the fragile architecture of belonging: homes built and demolished, rebuilt and reimagined. We see people standing up to protect their shelters and the structures that, in turn, protect them. From informal settlements to urban high-rises, from family kitchens to refugee camps, each story offers a window into how individuals and communities navigate instability with creativity, courage and care. Though the films emerge from vastly different geographies, languages and traditions, they echo one another in their insistence on home as a human right and as a living, breathing expression of connection. In conversation, they form a cinematic mosaic of resilience — and endurance — an evolving portrait of what it means when geopolitical realities compel one to continually make, lose and remake one’s place in the world.

Series programmed and notes written by Public Programmer Beandrea July and Associate Programmer Nicole Ucedo.