American Dream Movies

Wokman shares an immigrant Chinese family’s pursuit of the American Dream from inside of their restaurant, China Wok. Based in 1998 in rural Georgia...

The internationally acclaimed director and recipient of the Erasmus Award in 2007, Péter Forgács created a documentary exploring the fate of hundred t...

Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell pushes the...

Disputed with his father, Jay does everything he can to adapt himself to the city life as an immigrant.

This short experimental film follows two energetic college students over a day around various locations in three boroughs of New York City.

It’s been widely reported that Detroit is making a comeback, but long-term residents of Detroit’s mostly black neighborhoods aren’t seeing much benefi...

Ever since he was a kid, Johnny Castle had a dream: to become a movie star. Driven by his obsession, Johnny moved to Los Angeles, and the corner of Ho...

All Denny wants to do is get by like everybody else, but there always seems to be something in the way.

In order to pass a history class and save his student visa, Caleb Shatar must earn extra credit by starring in his eccentric history professor’s no-bu...

After being captured by a self-proclaimed border guard, a Mexican boy tries to cook his way to freedom.