Immigration Movies

Having grown up within the Cuban Revolution, in 1980, Juan Carlos Zaldívar was a 13-year-old "pioneer" jeering in the streets at the thousands...

In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary...

A comic group of Europeans coming to the USA have romantic and immigration troubles.

An internet personality journeys to his hometown on the border between Texas and Mexico to visit family members, only to discover that his...

An intimate close-up on Aleya, a trans woman who has recently moved from Cairo to germany right after her transition. This portrait marks her first...

A film student returns to his family home in search of identity, uncovering hidden family secrets and discovering that the answers he seeks lie...

Behind the scenes of a popular deli on New York's Upper East Side, undocumented immigrant workers face sublegal wages, dangerous machinery, and...

Advances in science and technology in America depend heavily on high-skilled legal immigrants from across the globe. But our current immigration...

In a moment of anger in a grocery store in Lausanne, a father loses patience and disciplines his disobedient child. A shocked customer immediately...

Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee, is rebuilding his life after being granted asylum in Canada. In Vancouver, he counsels and helps resettle...

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...

A documentary film that follows the lives of first-generation retired immigrants living in Finland.

Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been...

Canada as a refuge for LBGTQ+ immigrants: Yazan from Iraq, Nata from Central Africa, Aida from Iran and Eilyn from Colombia all had to flee their...

A young woman flees from immigration police, desperate to escape an inevitable fate. As the tension builds in a single continuous shot, her options...

The film mixes fiction, filmed documents and interviews which recounts the arrival in Paris of an Algerian immigrant lost in the metro. On December...

Robert Kongaika runs from his family to join the military and becomes the first Tongan US Air Force Colonel. This is the true story of the island...

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

Profile of a Chinese immigrant to Canada narrated by her son.

David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the Windrush scandal and the ‘hostile environment’ for black British immigrants...