When a person leaves a country, dialogue has already begun—whether spoken or not.

As part of this month’s Transcultural Dialogues series at Teachers College, Columbia University, we highlight Glorious Exit as our DVD of the week.

Glorious Exit reflects the core of the Transcultural Dialogues series: the multiple conversations that emerge when individuals move between cultures, and the ways these encounters reshape identity, belonging, and connection.

Jarreth Merz, a Swiss-Nigerian actor living in Los Angeles, is summoned to Nigeria to bury his father. Nigerian tradition mandates the eldest child to take charge of a father’s burial. Although he accepts the responsibility, he struggles with why he feels morally responsible toward Nigerian tradition and a family whom he hardly knows. Jarreth starts a journey of self-discovery.

Available in double DVD Nigerian Tales, with The Last Tree (Sundance 2019), about a British-Nigerian teenager who moves from rural England to London when his mother takes him from his foster home, and later returns to Nigeria, searching for a sense of self across cultures.

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