Immigration Movies

In Lagos, two paths cross for a fleeting moment that could mean nothing—or everything.

For Ababacar and Mbaye - two Senegalese immigrants who met and established a great friendship in Buenos Aires - the challenge goes beyond adapting to...

Pauline, Norah, Kristina and others wait for hours, sitting under a hut deep in the Bois de Vincennes. In front of the administrative detention...

In 1970s turbulent Libya, a weary Nigerian man and a young Cameroonian woman hide on their journey to Europe. As night falls, confessions spark...

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...

“Forgetting is complicit in recidivism,” says the commentary of this film dedicated to the demonstration of October 17, 1961 in Paris and...

A celebrated Turkish television star immigrates to New York, where he falls in love with a male kindergarten teacher, forcing him to choose between...

Over the course of two centuries, seven million men, women and children abandoned their homeland for America's shores. In just one horrifying decade,...

The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life poetically narrates the story of a community of Iranian Americans who have made the San...

Three Kurdish immigrants arrive in the UK, as illegal aliens to seek asylum. Finding they now belong to London's underground.

It is winter at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night at the door of this little-known basement facility the same entry...

"When will you return?" tells the story of a grandmother (Doña Conchita) who is taking care of her grandson (Tomás) after her son...

Two intertwined families, one American, one Mexican, and their fight to save three year old illegal Angelina from deportation.

Deep in the lush river jungles of Argentina, Alvaro lives a solitary existence fishing and harvesting reeds. What sets him apart from the rest of his...

Over five thousand people illegally cross the border each day. There are areas where crime is at its highest, where criminals prey upon these...

The filmmaker’s grandmother moved into this house in 1971. When Rolande Ségalini died, everything remained as it was during her...

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...