Movies: Immigrant

A documentary exploring the experiences and attitudes of Indian and Pakistani taxi drivers in New York City while also questioning the filmmaker's relationship to these South Asian immigrants and to his mixed-race heritage....

Raul finally gets the courage to ask his co-worker, Rosa out on a date. When the day arrives, Raul is confronted by ICE officers and arrested for being undocumented. Meanwhile Rosa is waiting for him at his favorite restaurant only to never have Raul...

Toño and Aldo are immigrant workers, on what seems a regular day of cleaning duty Toño carries with him a heavy burden....

Teachings of an Issei. Advice, spirituality and challenges....

Over five thousand people illegally cross the border each day. There are areas where crime is at its highest, where criminals prey upon these defenseless groups. An elite task force is put together with high expectations of solving this problem that ...

From humble beginnings in a small slate roofed village in Greece to the heyday of America's movie palaces, the Latchis Family built an empire of theatres throughout New England in the hard-scrabble years of the Great Depression. Their story is told t...

The challenging daily routine of Ceará-born jockey Antonio Davielson and his family living in a foreign country on the other side of the planet....

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building superintendents. Many rights regarding the freedom of movement, communication and behavior were abused....

Rosa is from Croatia and lives in Switzerland, with her husband who depends on her care. She takes care of everything. Her children have grown up and want to leave home. Rosa stays behind alone....

The suitcase is packed and placed in the middle of the room, the door to the apartment is open, but something is preventing him from leaving. KROONG ( Կռունկ ) - Crane. In Armenian culture,Crane is a symbol of migration and the melancholy associate...

To My Motherland is an experimental personal essay film that blends personal photographs and home videos to explore the complexities of immigration, language, and returning to the motherland....

The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC), with The San Francisco Foundation Award, made to an organization demonstrating exemplary commitment to improving human relations in the ...

Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have recently immigrated to the US from the former Soviet Union. Gary's family is from Moscow....

ICE conducted the largest immigration raids in US history at slaughterhouses in 2019, arresting and deporting undocumented workers. Despite the danger to herself and her family, former slaughterhouse worker Susana returns to the scene at night to car...

Following the death of a guest at a rural hotel, an immigrant employee struggles to navigate his way through a world where indifference is abundant and human connection is scarce....

A Ghanaian woman, Nana Ama, finds out at airport Schiphol that her papers are false. Her dream to start a new life in the United States falls apart. After escaping the authorities, she tries to earn a living in the Bijlmer in Amsterdam....

A knife in the pocket, adrenaline in the blood and only one dream in mind: to be a gangster - and the biggest one at that. Yehya was 15 years old and close to realizing his dream when he met the filmmaker Christian Stahl in the stairwell. Yehya wasn'...

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A young Arab-American hides his passion for stand up comedy from his immigrant father in order to avoid bringing shame to the family....

Gabriel, a recent immigrant, grapples with whether to show his nationality on his resume. As he sets out to find a job the next day, he confronts the daunting task amid his language barriers. An unpleasant encounter prompts him to reflect on his fami...