Immigration Movies

One million people legally cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day in both directions. Among them are women from Ciudad Juárez who cross to...

When a despondent girl tells her emotionally absent father about her intentions to move away from Hong Kong, conflicting feelings and internalized...

Biodun is Nigerian. In this animated documentary, he tells the story of his journey on foot from Lagos to Paris, how he survives with a container (un...

Omid is an Iranian immigrant who came to France with his family. One evening, in the street, he is attacked and stabbed in the heart. But Omid gets...

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...

Through the personal memory of the view of the director who in first person re-lives, after fifty years, the journey of his family towards Argentina,...

The long lasting Palestinian-Israeli conflict has created appaling phenomenons that have horrified the Israeli society. the "politically...

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...

The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.

Thimbo wants to be a football player. Malik dreams of managing his own business. Demba just thinks of going to a better place.

This short story of immigration and forbidden love follows Lucy as she discovers her pregnancy and decides to visit her alcoholic mother for advice.

A film about Princesse, a 9-year-old Cameroonian, and her father, who leaves Africa to make their dreams come true. The two keep in touch through...

An undocumented immigrant receives a heartwarming yet heartbreaking phone call from his daughter across the border.

English teacher Kofi Frimpong is starting classes once again for immigrants at a local language school in Toronto. Before starting the lesson,...

In Greensboro, NC, a small church community offers sanctuary to Juana Ortega, a Guatemalan grandmother threatened with deportation after 25 years of...

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