Immigration Movies

Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...

In a closed apartment, sealed to the outside world, an aging polar bear tries unsuccessfully to communicate with his daughter.

A film about Princesse, a 9-year-old Cameroonian, and her father, who leaves Africa to make their dreams come true. The two keep in touch through...

The video was created during Bárbara Sánchez Barroso's stay in Tunisia and explores the dichotomy between West and East, and how it is...

An intimate close-up on Aleya, a trans woman who has recently moved from Cairo to germany right after her transition. This portrait marks her first...

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...

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

Thousands of undocumented migrants are illegally employed and exploited in the Italian crops to grow Italy's food. One Day One Day follows their...

Exploring the conflicts that inhabit individuals who experience immigration, Nana is a film about origins.

In Surinamers in Nederland: De terugkeer van het zwarte goud, we see Surinamese people arriving in the Netherlands, unsure of what to expect, and...

Follows the history of the Cameleers, men who opened large areas of land in the Australian central desert using camels, and their struggle to be...

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

A girl is on the verge of immigrating and leaving her home behind, while memories of her childhood linger in every corner of the room.

A short film documenting the immigrant experience. Open-borders? Policing? Naturalizing? Etc.

Matsu, known as Jack, arrives by train at Spencer Street Station, heart pounding, uncertain, yet hopeful.

Private-sector rented accommodation for the Surinamese and Antillean Dutch who increasingly moved to Amsterdam from these former colonies in the...

It began with a bus crashing through the gates of an embassy in Havana and unraveled into one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human...

Natives of the New World is a short documentary film shot on cell phones by the Kino Mosaik collective, which was founded in Lesbos Island, Greece,...