Movies: Immigrant

A naïve and "nice" West Indian's descent into postcolonial cynicism is depicted in a twenty minute monologue from writer Farrukh Dhondy....

Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as a new immigrant forced to give up her son. Obsessed with the thought of reuniting with him, she spends the next 25 years searching, pining, and bewailing her loss....

A reclusive non-conforming immigrant arouses fear and suspicion within a conservative insular community....

A Mexican housekeeper is forced to confront her past when a cartel boss appears on her doorstep....

Aïssa is a Congolese immigrant in France. She says that she is under eighteen but the authorities consider her an adult. To determine if she can be deported, a doctor must give her a physical examination....

Immigrant construction worker Mihai lives his life divided between the memories of his family that he left at home and his monotonous daily existence on the construction site....

Work. Eat. Sleep. And back to work. For a long time skippers in the North East of Scotland could not find locals to work on their fishing vessels. That was until Filipino fishermen started coming to town for work. Both nationalities strive to shorten...

Somewhere in a remote part of South Africa a heinous crime is committed. Against the backdrop of xenophobic riots that have swept across the country, two Zimbabwean brothers along with a local girl are brutally attacked. The older brother is burnt al...

Tehran 2017, three days in life of two young undocumented Afghani brothers, recently immigrated to Iran, who see their destiny take a turn just as a better life seems to open up to them....

Paper Dolls follows the lives of transgender migrant workers from the Philippines who work as health care providers for elderly Orthodox Jewish men and perform as drag queens during their spare time. It also delves into the lives of societal outcasts...

A dialogue between the collective and the personal, a living memory that combines the dreams and realities of the Haitian community residing in Chile. This dialogue is guided by the voice of Wilner Petit-Frère, a Haitian immigrant who observes and ca...

A man recounts his life experiences from his youth in Türkiye, to his many years spent behind the counter at a small Fish & Chip shop in the UK....

The diaspora of Filipinos around the globe is driven mostly by the economics of supply and demand. The yearning for something better, stability, and self-validation leads a handful of sojourners from the provinces of the Philippines into the arms of ...

After being jailed by the Macoutes for complaining about worker exploitation at the baseball factory where he worked, a Haitian man and his family attempts to escape to the United States. On the boat, they are forced into the ocean at gunpoint far fr...

An immigrant worker from Bosnia falls in love with the actress Nastassia Kinski. To be able to approach her, he has to become famous himself. That's why he sets off on a journey to fame in a black comedy with a twist in its tale....

An immigrant Chinese wife joins her husband in 1950s America after he graduates from the university....

My Baba Bozorg was a professor of literature in Tehran, Iran. He moved to Canada in 2002 to live with his son, my father. He spends his days, at large, seldom in his room on the top floor of our suburban home in Scarborough, Ontario. Primarily readin...

The story of a hard working latino in London, who is about to receive some bad news, in the worst time....

Following the passing of British-Ugandan teen Nia’s grandmother, she struggles with the guilt of not being able to mourn her death. Through this, she is inspired to connect with her culture....

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of immigration changed their sense of self and altered the fabric of their relationship....