Immigration Movies

Late at night, pitch black, a car approaches with the lights on. A man walks toward the shore, looking for something. A bunch of illegal immigrants...

Life for refugees and migrants stuck at Calais: Filmed amidst the camps, the beaches, the sea and the sky, impressions of the lived experiences of...

Carmela, don Gregorio, Gabriella and Lorella have never met but they have a lot in common. In the mid 60's, at the peak of the great migratory wave,...

Tehran 2017, three days in life of two young undocumented Afghani brothers, recently immigrated to Iran, who see their destiny take a turn just as a...

Chema is an expat architect from Spain who lives in Amsterdam. He has built up a new life there as a wind-up toy maker. He creates small pieces of...

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

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...

Turkish women in the Federal Republic of Germany work on the assembly line, provide for their families and are isolated. In Remscheid, a group from...

Outaouais, summer 1996. Solange, a 23-year-old Rwandan refugee, finds political asylum in Hull with her four-year-old daughter Lisa. Their...

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

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

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

An intimate look inside the immigrant community in Portland, Maine, as told by Nyamuon Nguany Machar who arrived as refugee in 1995 and David Zwalita...

A short documentary that follows Korean grandparents as they share their modern-day reckoning of their immigration story and grandparenthood.

In a closed apartment, sealed to the outside world, an aging polar bear tries unsuccessfully to communicate with his daughter.

An uplifting story of an immigrant and her sixteen-year-old American car, and the experiences they share. A story of perseverance, loyalty and the...

Documentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community