Home Is Distant Shores Film Festival is a celebration of immigrant and refugee experiences narrated through films.

Where is home? Is it the place where you are physically located? Is it where your heart is? It is where your memories are? With that in mind, we present a film festival that celebrates the lives and experiences of immigrants, refugees, asylum seekers, expats who left their land of birth for myriad of reasons and moved to the United States of America.

We bring to light wide variety of topics such as migration journey, border security, education, employment, documented and undocumented immigration, community integration, family separation, DACA, resettlement of refugee and asylum seekers etc.

We bring to the forefront bold and immersive voices of filmmakers and music video producers with 800,000 immigrants who reside in North Carolina.

The festival is free, but registration is required.