Immigration Movies

A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning...

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

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...

An intimate close-up on Aleya, a trans woman who has recently moved from Cairo to germany right after her transition. This portrait marks her first...

A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.

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

Since 1995, the TransAsia Sisters Association has been a pioneering force in supporting immigrant women in Taiwan, especially marriage migrants. What...

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...

Because of the poor employment situation in Finland, many families and single people decided to move to Sweden to seek employment in the 1960s and...

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,...

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

A young woman who has migrated to Istanbul tells her family that she has built a successful life, while secretly living a very different reality at...

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

The events that took place at the beach of El Tarajal in Ceuta (Spain) in February 2014 - the killing by the border police of 15 people who were...

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

In Surinamers in Nederland: De terugkeer van het zwarte goud, we see Surinamese people arriving in the Netherlands, unsure of what to expect, and...

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

Three young Afghans find themselves in limbo after being evacuated to the US from Kabul.