Immigration Movies

A conversation between Idrees Khan and his mother on how the celebrate their Trini culture in Orlando

Rey, a first-generation American, embarks on a nightlong search for his missing $215 million winning lottery ticket. On the journey, Rey wrestles...

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

Turkish women in the Federal Republic of Germany work on the assembly line, provide for their families and are isolated. In Remscheid, a group from...

Landlady Fränzi is renting her secluded alpine hut for the first time and prepares everything in minute detail. However, due to an overbooking...

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...

Immigration is a new chapter in one's life, a chapter with unexpected events that can take one's life down paths different from the one imagined....

Since 1995, the TransAsia Sisters Association has been a pioneering force in supporting immigrant women in Taiwan, especially marriage migrants. What...

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

When Ader Ismail fled from Somalia to Sweden, she thought it would not take long for her five children to join her. But the years go by and the...

In early summer of 2025, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials began detaining migrants at their asylum hearings, an ad-hoc...

I’ve never flown without having an overweight suitcase. This film explains why.

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

Looks at the United States as it becomes an increasingly diverse nation. Tracing the history of significant changes in the Immigration and...

At the turn of the century, Sephardic Jews fled the turmoil of their homeland to start a new life in America. Filled with interviews, archival photos...

Somewhere between documentary and fiction, this is an essay on questions of territory and human displacements made during an excursion from southern...

Three boys and three girls. All born in the Middle East now living in Sweden. All with different views of Islam, integration, the World and Sweden. ...

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

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

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...