Immigration Movies

"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...

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...

After losing her husband, 84-year-old Kristina shares personal thoughts and emotions, offering a glimpse into her life's longing for love and...

This drama tells the harrowing story of an immigrant family in the New World. On arrival in Canada, their hopes for a better life were dashed when...

The story of a successful Greek immigrant, the restaurant owner Giorgos Kozompolis, who emigrated in the mid 1960’s from the poor village of...

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...

Gabriel travels from Guatemala to Barcelona for his estranged brother’s funeral, only to find out he's going to be cremated.

A group of children living on the streets of Athens. Among them is Sayid, a twelve-year-old boy, who works all day selling sunflower seeds in the...

This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the...

Sherif is a young man from Senegal who was working in Libya in 2011 until he was forced to flee. French and American bomb attacks caused death and...

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

Eight women on the margins of Israeli society are thrown together during the course of a school year at Tel Aviv's oldest beauty school. Amidst the...

It’s been a decade since Postville, a small town in Iowa, suffered the largest immigration raid at a worksite in U.S. history: 389 immigrants...

Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for...

In the dark night, off the Comoros archipelago, Patron learns how to become « Commandant ». Soon he will take his first clandestine...