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VIII. Diaspora, Migration, and Translocal Identity 36. Kammatipaadam (2016) — Urban dispossession, caste, and memory in a city undergoing violent change; a study in spatial erasure. 37. Neelakasham Pachakadal Chuvanna Bhoomi (2013) — Road-movie aesthetics capturing youth, dislocation, and the search for belonging. 38. Ustad Hotel (2012) — Food, migration, and intergenerational ties; culinary spaces as cultural memory. 39. Salt-and-pepper realist tales of Gulf migration — Films that document Kerala’s transnational labor flows and homefront transformations. 40. Films about return migration and aging — Portraits of those who come home changed, negotiating altered hometowns.