Immigration Movies

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

A single middle-aged man trapped in frustration and loneliness in Toronto communicates with a divorced woman, and they help from thousands of miles...

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

A documentary that explores the human and financial costs of illegal immigration.

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

Captured during his francisation courses in Montreal, Adad Hannah constructs a playful video portrait of the different people and backgrounds that...

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...

Documentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community

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...

This film focuses on the basics of adapting to life in England.

An immigrant lost in Santiago's subway discovers that the city he inhabits conceals a buried secret: Santiago was founded over a cusco, an...

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,...

This documentary by Dan Glynn follows the personal story of Jairo, a hard-working Mexican who immigrates to the US in order to find work to support...

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

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

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

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...

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...