Home Away from Home

To ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden. Cultural memory exerts a healing power, combatting cultural appropriation, hostility towards migrants and the rift between Miriam and her Nigerian-British children.

• Release date
• January 2, 1993
• Runtime
• 11 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Maureen Blackwood

Cast

Ellen Thomas Miriam

A

Ashabi Ajikawo Fumi

S

Simon Lee Clarke Abe

D

David Boateng Sunny

A

Amy-Jo Lynch Betty

R

Rosemary Da Costa Nigerian Woman

C

Chantelle La Rose 1st Girl

K

Kandiah Binns 2nd Girl