Immigration Movies

A group of children living on the streets of Athens. Among them is Sayid, a twelve-year-old boy, who works all day selling sunflower seeds in the...

follows the stories of individuals held in the U.S. Immigration detention system and those who visit them. The film traces the lives of several...

In 2024, 82 people lost their lives crossing the English Channel while seeking safety in the UK. In the wake of grief, a poignant journey along the...

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

What does it mean to belong to a place, a country? In a south Tel Aviv elementary school, that question is addressed head-on by a fourth-grade class...

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

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

The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC), with The San Francisco Foundation...

Immigration is a new chapter in one's life, a chapter with unexpected events that can take one's life down paths different from the one imagined....

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

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,...

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

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

English teacher Kofi Frimpong is starting classes once again for immigrants at a local language school in Toronto. Before starting the lesson,...

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.

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

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