Immigration Movies

What happens to the Mexican deported once they are sent back home? The amazing achievement of Sergio Tamai, founder of Angeles Sin Fronteras, who has...

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

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...

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

A young Ukrainian street photographer reflects on his feelings of longing and connection to his father as he explores the streets of New York City.

In a small commercial harbour in the south of France, two Moroccan sailors are watching over ferries that were abandoned by ship-owners. Young...

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

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

Isminaz immigrates to Canada, leaving behind two of her children, as well as her husband Turkey. She tells us about a woman's sacrifice by welcoming...

As queer trans and gender non-conforming children of the Vietnamese diaspora, we are fragmented at the crossroads of being displaced from not only a...

A documentary about a night café called Walkers, its workers and the youth – largely immigrants – populating the café...

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for...

A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child. The film introduces viewers to a...

Observation of the asylum procedure in the Federal Republic of Germany, not limited to depicting an individual case, but rather tracing a basic fate....

An unusual friendship in an agitated political context.

A powerful set of stories of “righteous persons” taking action along the U.S.-Mexico border, motivated by moral conviction and...

A Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa after...

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

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

Three boys and three girls. All born in the Middle East now living in Sweden. All with different views of Islam, integration, the World and Sweden. ...