An African-Canadian man's interracial relationship with a white woman faces parental disapproval when his Nigerian parents come to visit in Where I Belong.

Arinze Eze was born in Canada to Nigerian parents, grew up in Africa, but moved to Winnipeg as an adult and found work as an engineer.  Now Eze anticipates his parents' first visit in a decade. Family is important to him, but his parents don't know that he has chucked his well-paying job to become an artist. They'll also discover that he has a girlfriend who is not African, but a white Jewish-Canadian.

A recent Statistics Canada study reports a 30% increase in mixed-race marriages in Canada since 2001, but family acceptance can still be slow.   Tensions mount as the visit approaches and the young couple's relationship takes a turn for the worse.  Eze finds himself torn - he wants to please his parents and he's proud of his culture, but he also wants to pursue the life he has found for himself in Canada.

Where I Belong is directed by Arinze Eze and produced by Joe MacDonald at the National Film Board of Canada (Winnipeg).  It is a winner of the NFB's Reel Diversity Competition, a national initiative in partnership with CBC Newsworld.