Colonial Gods

Directed by Dee Rees

A complicated friendship between a Somali man and Nigerian man unfolds against the chaos of gentrification and displacement in a small immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales known as Tiger Bay.
Colonial Gods is a forceful short film from Dee Rees about immigration, displacement and the fragile idea of home within a society that can withdraw belonging at any moment. The drama moves quickly, but Cornell John gives the story a powerful centre, and the anger beneath the film’s social critique never overwhelms its sympathy for people trapped by larger systems.

Colonial Gods

Directed by Dee Rees

A complicated friendship between a Somali man and Nigerian man unfolds against the chaos of gentrification and displacement in a small immigrant community in Cardiff, Wales known as Tiger Bay.

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Colonial Gods is a forceful short film from Dee Rees about immigration, displacement and the fragile idea of home within a society that can withdraw belonging at any moment. The drama moves quickly, but Cornell John gives the story a powerful centre, and the anger beneath the film’s social critique never overwhelms its sympathy for people trapped by larger systems.