With Wings And Roots

I Want to Go back to America!

Families & Relationships

Identity & Belonging

I was throwing myself around the house, on the couch, crying and screaming, 'I want to go back to America!' My poor father — he must have been so embarrassed...

Khorshid

, New York

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Documentary Film

From the epicenter of today’s global migration debates, FROM HERE (previously entitled With Wings and Roots) is a documentary film that follows four young people who represent the future of global citizenry.
Filmed over a decade in two of the world’s largest immigration countries–the U.S. and Germany–From Here captures an international generation’s fight for belonging in an era of rising nationalism. 90 min.

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OUR WORK

With Wings and Roots is an initiative of media makers, activists, scholars, educators and cultural organizers working in the US and Europe. We collaborate to reframe the migration and integration debates through storytelling, critical histories, and creative interventions.

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Stories of Belonging & Migration

Hear from over fifty young people reflecting on their experiences growing up in immigrant families, facing racism and exclusion, and grappling with belonging.

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