Immigrant Movies

A first-generation college senior confronts the realities of generational trauma, while preparing an original piece for an upcoming violin audition.

A young South American man struggles to build a new life for his wife and children in Australia. Dreams turn to lies. Lies become reality. Does he...

Drawn from footage shot between 1949 and 1963, Jonas Mekas’s autobiographical diary film chronicles his early years in exile, capturing the...

After the near death of her grandfather, Chinese Canadian filmmaker Michelle Wong embarks on a personal journey back home to her small town of St....

Tanya leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancée in London. But after he fails to turn up at the...

An undocumented immigrant, Roberto, seeks a way to become lawful, but all efforts are put on hold when he becomes a new father at the onset of the US...

Toño and Aldo are immigrant workers, on what seems a regular day of cleaning duty Toño carries with him a heavy burden.

To the Rider his moped is everything. As a pizza delivery driver it is his livelihood. As a breadline straddling, immigrant father it is his...

Matoom, a young Thai boy comes to the gradual understanding on the ephemerality of his family life through his re-collected memories - inspired by...

A prosperous small-town peddler accedes to his family's wish to move from their secure existence to the uncertainty of New York City. It proves...

A mosaic of interrelated characters living in the same social housing project and all in search of happiness, forgiveness and meaning.

After Fred von Bergen, a German immigrant in America, is forced from his job by anti-German hysteria before the first world war, he and his friend...

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable...

The lives of an arrogant young motivational speaker in debt to the Chinese mafia, his lookin’-to-get-out girlfriend, and a single father in...

A trilogy of individual stories depicting an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different individuals given a chance to live with...

A personal documentary in which a filmmaker explores love and the meaning of home through the lives and memories of their family.

Even though Sami is safe in the United States with his 9-year-old daughter, Aya, the injures sustained during the war in Syria are making his life...

Peter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his...

Rabah is forced to take over custody of his son Cédrick. The boy has been mute since losing his mother. Despite the financial strain caused by...

Two men, the hint of a sofa corner and a pile of letters. Using minimalist means, the film tells the story of two brothers caught between exile in a...