Movies: Immigration

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made....

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....

Cuban drummer Elvis García reflects on his journey from Havana to Miami, struggling to make his way in the American city as a professional musician....

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

Observation of the asylum procedure in the Federal Republic of Germany, not limited to depicting an individual case, but rather tracing a basic fate. The film captivates with unpretentious black-and-white images that are emotionally moving and show c...

This Saturday is a Turkish wedding day at Espace Venise. Huddled in a car in the parking lot, 21-year-old Fatih wants to get married. He has set his sights on Ipek, Recep’s sister. But neither his best friend Murat nor Recep nor even Ipek are yet awa...

A short documentary that follows Korean grandparents as they share their modern-day reckoning of their immigration story and grandparenthood....

This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the diaspora is told through conversations with Lidiya Kan’s mother, personal stories, fragmented memories, a...

Somewhere between documentary and fiction, this is an essay on questions of territory and human displacements made during an excursion from southern Spain to northern Morocco. Travelling on the Mediterranean rim, we hear immigrants tell their stories...

After two months of a hard-fought strike, accompanied by a day-and-night occupation of the premises, Jeune Afrique's workers were the victims of a court order authorizing their CEO, Bechir Ben Yahmed, to have them removed by the police. If they resis...

Andres Kurg is an art historian who likes Danish modernist architecture and therefore wants to settle there. He argues with Danish officials to grant him a residence permit for aesthetic reasons....

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

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States...

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The long lasting Palestinian-Israeli conflict has created appaling phenomenons that have horrified the Israeli society. the "politically conscience-refusals" or those individual soldiers refusing to fight in the occupied territories, are one of those...

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 numerous phone calls. Princesse goes to school while her father is trying to make it in Paris cleaning ...

The film is a story of immigration and identity after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Mihajlo Jevtic. It follows the period of transition of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia into today's Serbia ...

UNACCOMPANIED: Alone in America shows the incredible obstacles young unaccompanied children face when they appear alone, without a lawyer, in immigration proceedings. Help support Immigration Counseling Service, a 501(c)3 non-profit, in its efforts t...

Carmela, don Gregorio, Gabriella and Lorella have never met but they have a lot in common. In the mid 60's, at the peak of the great migratory wave, alone or together with their families, they arrived in Switzerland, where they lived for a more or le...

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 accepted as Australians in a country where their families have been for over a hundred years....