Immigration Movies

Because of the poor employment situation in Finland, many families and single people decided to move to Sweden to seek employment in the 1960s and...

Rosine Mbakam is invited to step in Sabine’s small hairdresser’s because it is dangerous in the street. She accepts and pushes in with...

Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable...

A young boy has just moved to America from a foreign country with his mother. He tries to adjust to his new life, specifically in his school. He goes...

A deeply human portrait of the chaotic reality of the US - Mexico border. Full of stunnig images and crafted like a classic...

At the beginning of the 20th century, a German household attempts to stay isolated from their new surroundings, in the south of Brazil. Their fear,...

Teto the altar boy turns his church into a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.

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

When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one...

This film focuses on the basics of adapting to life in England.

In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to...

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.

Football is both the place, the crystallization of sporting passion and the witness of identity imaginations. It is also an interesting and relevant...

Irpinia follows the journey of young West Indian dreamer Dudley as he makes his way to England in the 1960s. At 24 years old, Dudley boarded a ship...

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

Documentary on the attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers in Farmingville, New York.

Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been...

After losing her father at an early age, Tina Duran explores the rich history of her father, the story of her ancestors who migrated from Mexico to...

Asylum is a poignant drama that unfolds the harrowing journey of Khadija Jallow and her daughter, Khawla, seeking asylum after a political coup in...