Immigration Movies

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for...

Zak is living in a village in Southern France. He has a quiet life, with his wife and his two kids. When he learns about his father's death in...

An experimental documentary featuring international college students commenting on their experiences of cultural isolation in America.

Bachir, twenty-five, is looking to leave, perhaps to France. He waits every morning for the postman to come. The visa response is slow in coming....

Filmmaker Arturo Perez Torres follows in the footsteps of two friends traveling on an extraordinary and extremely dangerous journey from Central...

The story of a successful Greek immigrant, the restaurant owner Giorgos Kozompolis, who emigrated in the mid 1960’s from the poor village of...

My name is Ion. Who could have imagined the fate that awaited me: my birth under the Romanian dictatorship, the loss of my eyesight through an...

A Palestinian poet and an Italian journalist meet five Palestinians and Syrians in Milan who entered Europe via the Italian island of Lampedusa after...

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

Struggling with a deep loss and feeling disconnected from his home country while abroad, a young man begins to have a body transformation as he longs...

A documentary about a night café called Walkers, its workers and the youth – largely immigrants – populating the café...

follows the stories of individuals held in the U.S. Immigration detention system and those who visit them. The film traces the lives of several...

Greek internal migrants in Athens, after the Greek Civil War colonize the tops of the Tourkovounia hills.

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

A couple receives a letter of eviction: they must leave their home in Trento within 60 days. They are two political refugees: he is Afghan and she is...

UNACCOMPANIED: Alone in America shows the incredible obstacles young unaccompanied children face when they appear alone, without a lawyer, in...

A young woman leaves her abusive husband in Holland to seek refuge in St. Maarten. But the law has changed since the island obtained country status...

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