Immigration Movies

The Greek guest workers -gästarbeiter- in the industrially developed central and northern Europe in the mid 70s.

Carme, a gynecologist from Barcelona who has just separated from her colleague, gets involved in the problem of Shahida, one of her patients, whose...

A deeply human portrait of the chaotic reality of the US - Mexico border. Full of stunnig images and crafted like a classic...

Russian Jewish family immigrates to Israel; even stranger than the air raid is the behavior of their new fellow countrymen.

Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...

A reclusive non-conforming immigrant arouses fear and suspicion within a conservative insular community.

A prodigal daughter rejoins her family at their farm during a difficult time, as her ailing father faces both a terminal diagnosis and mounting...

Through the personal memory of the view of the director who in first person re-lives, after fifty years, the journey of his family towards Argentina,...

Zak is living in a village in Southern France. He has a quiet life, with his wife and his two kids. When he learns about his father's death in...

Documentary on the attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers in Farmingville, New York.

Davide has come to Germany to escape the depressing state of his home country, Italy. In Berlin, he takes a job putting up posters. But when the ill...

A film about Princesse, a 9-year-old Cameroonian, and her father, who leaves Africa to make their dreams come true. The two keep in touch through...

Documentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community

In Greensboro, NC, a small church community offers sanctuary to Juana Ortega, a Guatemalan grandmother threatened with deportation after 25 years of...

My Thu, an immigrant of Vietnamese origin who had to flee her country during the war, faces an eviction order from her Montreal apartment. In the...

A short animated documentary exploring the immigration experience through the eyes of children learning how to swim with clothes on in the...

Three young Afghans find themselves in limbo after being evacuated to the US from Kabul.

"Ellis Island Tales" - From 1892 to 1924, nearly 16 million emigrants from Europe passed through Ellis Island, a small block of land where a transit...

A short documentary that follows Korean grandparents as they share their modern-day reckoning of their immigration story and grandparenthood.