Immigration Movies
- 1938
Derby c.1938 - Eisner Personal Film
Derby c.1938 - Eisner Personal Film01938HD
Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.
- 2019
Aliento
Aliento22019HD
- 1979
Pinay, American Style
Pinay, American Style01979HD
PX, short for Paula Xavier (Vilma Santos) was an illegal alien in New York City. She’s broke and waiting for her fiancé to fulfill his promise of marr...
- 1979
Le Retour
Le Retour101979HD
In the early 1970s, Lakhdar, an Algerian peasant, is forced to leave his desert land and his family for France, but immigration weighs on him and he d...
- 2018
Yoko Bono - The Art of Being Swedish-Finnish
Yoko Bono - The Art of Being Swedish-Finnish02018HD
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 70s...
- 2005
On the Road with Mary
On the Road with Mary02005HD
Why don't we do something to ease the suffering of the poor, the excluded? Because we live in fear of "the other," the stranger. Filmed a few months b...
- 2023
Swimming with Wings
Swimming with Wings02023HD
A short animated documentary exploring the immigration experience through the eyes of children learning how to swim with clothes on in the Netherlands...
- 2023
A Thousand Pines
A Thousand Pines02023HD
In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to ma...
- 2022
Call it the burning
Call it the burning102022HD
One night, nine children from the same Tunisian village attempt the deadly crossing. Like a poem or a prayer, this film welcomes the words of bereaved...
- 2013
Displaced Perssons
Displaced Perssons72013HD
Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daughters. Trouble starts when the girls grow up and th...
- 2006
Straight Stories, Part 1
Straight Stories, Part 152006HD
Somewhere between documentary and fiction, this is an essay on questions of territory and human displacements made during an excursion from southern S...
- 2015
Ψωμί Κι Ελιές
Ψωμί Κι Ελιές02015HD
Leonidas and Vangelis travel to Munich to work in the successful restaurant of there uncle.
- 2009
L'Aide Au Retour
L'Aide Au Retour102009HD
Sofija and Miroslav are two immigrants who live in France without papers with their two sons. To avoid being evicted, the State proposes them a grant...
- 2012
You Will Be My Ally
You Will Be My Ally62012HD
In this gripping short drama, Domé, a young woman from Gabon who speaks flawless French, is apprehended at the airport on her way into Belgium. She sa...
- 2019
Balakrishna
Balakrishna02019HD
When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one was more in awe...
- 2023
Les cèdres du Liban
Les cèdres du Liban02023HD
- 2020
Friends of Mine: “The Places We Come From”
Friends of Mine: “The Places We Come From”02020HD
Max learns about immigration and the meaning of home from his friend Srijoni, who shares her story of moving to Canada from Bangladesh when she was yo...
- 2017
Los Lecheros
Los Lecheros02017HD
The fates of undocumented immigrant workers and Wisconsin's $43 billion dairy industry are closely intertwined - and both are grappling with their opt...
- 2017
From HK to MK
From HK to MK02017HD
What does it mean to be British? Gabriel, a dentist originally from Hong Kong, has lived in Milton Keynes for nearly 50 years. His mixed race son Mich...
- 2022
Vanished
Vanished7.52022HD