Immigration Movies

My Thu, an immigrant of Vietnamese origin who had to flee her country during the war, faces an eviction order from her Montreal apartment. In the...

PX, short for Paula Xavier (Vilma Santos) was an illegal alien in New York City. She’s broke and waiting for her fiancé to fulfill his...

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

After arriving in 1940 New York, Freddy struggles to find work. His world of refugee acquaintances includes the depressed daughter of a...

Hammer and compass in Mozambique. We see a GDR flag waved at a rally in Maputo, carried by "Madgermanes", contract workers who once toiled in eastern...

Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to...

When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ignites a political and media furor that culminates...

When an Arizona resident is charged with three felony counts and faces a 20-year prison sentence for helping migrants, his community grapples with...

Three young Afghans find themselves in limbo after being evacuated to the US from Kabul.

The fates of undocumented immigrant workers and Wisconsin's $43 billion dairy industry are closely intertwined - and both are grappling with their...

A documentary from 1987 featuring the life of early Chinese immigrants to the island of Newfoundland.

An hour-long portrait of Canadian immigration lawyer, M. Lee Cohen, renowned for his work with refugees. The film follows his representation of Sonya...

Anna, a young Czech doctor, gets held up at US immigration after a humanitarian trip to Uganda, the day her boyfriend wants to propose to her.

Three generations of the Nabi family flee their home in Aleppo and try to make it to safety in Germany where some members of the family have already...

A computer screen, images from the four corners of the world. We cross borders in one-click while another trip’s story reach us in bits,...

Four film-makers embark on a cinematic survey of Austria, documenting the political and social state of the nation and its people. An eye-opening...

It is summer and it is hot. Ice cream drips from its cone, a father photographs his child. Then a man suddenly arrests his focus. Inspired by a...