Migration Movies

  • 1970
    Sent Away Boys

    Sent Away Boys

    Sent Away Boys

    01970HD

    What happens to families in the absence of sons? What happens to land in the absence of farmers? What happens to villages in the absence of men? Sent...

    Sent Away Boys
  • 1970
    Passaporte Memória

    Passaporte Memória

    Passaporte Memória

    01970HD

    Marcelo was taken to Paris, where he has lived since he was 12. After the sudden death of his mother in 1992, he returns for the first time to the...

    Passaporte Memória
  • 2016
    Return to Cuba

    Return to Cuba

    Return to Cuba

    02016HD

    After 18 years living in Italy, the Cuban Barbara Ramos returns to live in her homeland. In the town of Santa Clara, she discovers through the...

    Return to Cuba
  • 2025
    The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers

    The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers

    The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers

    02025HD

    Dublin, June 2024: thousands of men seeking asylum in Ireland are homeless. Olivia and her group of volunteers are trying to find safe locations...

    The New Policy Regarding Homeless Asylum Seekers
  • 2021
    Libya: No Escape from Hell

    Libya: No Escape from Hell

    Libya: No Escape from Hell

    7.72021HD

    Libya: No Escape from Hell
  • 2009
    Migration

    Migration

    Migration

    02009HD

    Almost eight years ago the family of Marcela Gómez separated. His parents and younger sister emigrated to the United States and lived in Cali,...

    Migration
  • 2023
    Open Letters

    Open Letters

    Open Letters

    92023HD

    Between 1931 to 2002, Switzerland issued some six million seasonal residence permits, known as "A" permits, to immigrant workers. This status carried...

    Open Letters
  • 1970
    The Great Serengeti

    The Great Serengeti

    The Great Serengeti

    5.21970HD

    The Serengeti is a vast ecosystem, home to a dazzling variety of life, and the site of the largest migration on the planet. Woodland, riverbank...

    The Great Serengeti
  • 1978
    Slipway

    Slipway

    Slipway

    01978HD

    A young man receiving medical treatment in the hospital reminisces about fishing in the small dory his grandfather owned.

    Slipway
  • 2025
    nor any memories of the turning backs

    nor any memories of the turning backs

    nor any memories of the turning backs

    02025HD

    [poem_body_memory_voice] None of them belong to each other. All of them belong to themselves. A layered accumulation —___- a poetic exercise...

    nor any memories of the turning backs
  • 2022
    Fadia’s Tree

    Fadia’s Tree

    Fadia’s Tree

    02022HD

    While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is...

    Fadia’s Tree
  • 2020
    8 Poems of Emigration

    8 Poems of Emigration

    8 Poems of Emigration

    02020HD

    "8 Poems of Emigration" is a found footage film that focuses on the migration crisis. The film, while focusing on the immigration and immigration...

    8 Poems of Emigration
  • 1970
    X-Mission

    X-Mission

    X-Mission

    01970HD

    X-Mission explores the logic of the refugee camp as one of the oldest extra-territorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camp as a case in...

    X-Mission
  • 2011
    Guañape sur

    Guañape sur

    Guañape sur

    02011HD

    Guanape Sur. A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water. Nothing is growing here. Around its shores a restricted area has been...

    Guañape sur
  • 2023
    HARRAGA – Those Who Burn Their Lives

    HARRAGA – Those Who Burn Their Lives

    HARRAGA – Those Who Burn Their Lives

    02023HD

    Imad, Nourdine, Walid and Hamza are a group of young Moroccan boys living in a cave under the lighthouse in the Spanish exclave Melilla. They wait...

    HARRAGA – Those Who Burn Their Lives
  • 2017
    Viacrucis Migrante

    Viacrucis Migrante

    Viacrucis Migrante

    02017HD

    A documentary film about men, women, and children fleeing northward from the existential threats in their home countries of Honduras, El Salvador,...

    Viacrucis Migrante
  • 2024
    Motherland

    Motherland

    Motherland

    02024HD

    Director Miriam Pucitta grew up as the child of Italian migrant workers in Switzerland in the 1960s and 1970s. She herself has only fragmentary...

    Motherland
  • 2020
    Obāchan

    Obāchan

    Obāchan

    02020HD

    Obāchan is Japanese. She left her native archipelago in 1941 to marry one of her compatriots, 17 years older, settled in Mexico. Through...

    Obāchan
  • 2013
    The Land Between

    The Land Between

    The Land Between

    72013HD

    The Land Between
  • 1981
    Tent City

    Tent City

    Tent City

    01981HD

    The story of a group of Cubans who arrived in Miami during the Mariel Boatlift and were housed in an improvised camp in the heart of the city....

    Tent City