Immigration Movies

Si mis campos hablaran is a 1947 Chilean film directed by José Bohr. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

Carnotstraat 17 is a feature documentary looking more closely into the effect on someone’s identity through migration.

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

A couple receives a letter of eviction: they must leave their home in Trento within 60 days. They are two political refugees: he is Afghan and she is...

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

Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison in Texas in 2007-8 leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover...

Artist Ramiro Gomez advocates for domestic laborers through an art instillation in the Sonoran Desert, in tribute to his immigrant roots.

In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their homeland to save their lives, and in the...

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

When Ader Ismail fled from Somalia to Sweden, she thought it would not take long for her five children to join her. But the years go by and the...

The cross-frontier migrant's life 'within the system' - an endless, featureless, futureless round of queues - becomes even bleaker in December. Bipul...

What if from one day to the next, you’re no longer seen, but instead are stared at? The leading characters in this multi-layered film have...

Over a thousand immigrant workers from the highland of Maya community of Jacaltenango, Guatemala live and work in Jupiter, Florida, a costal resort...

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

Fearing for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patricia fled their country, without their parents, when they were only children. They had to start all...

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

Private-sector rented accommodation for the Surinamese and Antillean Dutch who increasingly moved to Amsterdam from these former colonies in the...

A Haitian asylum seeker flees an immigration camp, unknowingly approaching a house owned by a paranoid blue-collar worker.

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...