Immigration Movies

Isminaz immigrates to Canada, leaving behind two of her children, as well as her husband Turkey. She tells us about a woman's sacrifice by welcoming...

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

During a sunny day at Coney Island, a father and son's bond begins to fracture when the boy reveals his mother's plans to take him back to...

What does it mean to be British? Gabriel, a dentist originally from Hong Kong, has lived in Milton Keynes for nearly 50 years. His mixed race son...

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...

Lina is a twelve-year-old Syrian girl who has just arrived at the home of Sonia, an activist who has been in refugee camps in Greece. Lina suffers a...

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...

A decade after taking a series of photographs of skinhead members of a far-right group for his book Public Enemies, Leo Regan returns to three...

Ways of Being Home explores the immigrant experience from the perspective of the Mexican community living in Northfield, a college town in southern...

Little Orso meets Zelal, same age as him, but profoundly different.

“Jews of the Wild West” is a feature-length documentary completed in December 2021. The independent not-for-profit project is produced by...

In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary...

During World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another place. Matsubayashi draws attention to the fact that...

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

A single middle-aged man trapped in frustration and loneliness in Toronto communicates with a divorced woman, and they help from thousands of miles...

Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends...

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...