Immigrant Movies

  • 1983
    Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community

    Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community

    Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community

    01983HD

    This feature documentary takes us to the heart of the Jane-Finch "Corridor" in the early 1980s. Covering six square blocks in Toronto's North York, th...

    Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community
  • 2021
    A Cup of Sugar

    A Cup of Sugar

    A Cup of Sugar

    02021HD

    A reclusive non-conforming immigrant arouses fear and suspicion within a conservative insular community.

    A Cup of Sugar
  • 2024
    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    02024HD

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

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards
  • 2024
    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    02024HD

    Chinese for Affirmative Action is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Award for being "a champion against discrimination and for adv...

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012
  • 2024
    Remember When We Immigrated Here?

    Remember When We Immigrated Here?

    Remember When We Immigrated Here?

    02024HD

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

    Remember When We Immigrated Here?
  • 2024
    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    02024HD

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

    Through Immigrants' Eyes
  • 2024
    Hard Work and "Whatever"

    Hard Work and "Whatever"

    Hard Work and "Whatever"

    02024HD

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

    Hard Work and "Whatever"
  • 2024
    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

    02024HD

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

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew
  • 2024
    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    02024HD

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

    Klaira's Story - Berezka
  • 2024
    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    02024HD

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

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past
  • 2024
    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    02024HD

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

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?
  • 2024
    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

    02024HD

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

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World
  • 2024
    Gary's Story - No Second Best

    Gary's Story - No Second Best

    Gary's Story - No Second Best

    02024HD

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

    Gary's Story - No Second Best
  • 1982
    Finnish American Lives

    Finnish American Lives

    Finnish American Lives

    01982HD

    A moving portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting that fragile community of memory connecting...

    Finnish American Lives
  • 2024
    Give it Back!

    Give it Back!

    Give it Back!

    02024HD

    Olivia (12),just moved with her family from New York and arrives for her first day of school. She struggles to find her place within the hierarchy of...

    Give it Back!
  • 2024
    Boat People

    Boat People

    Boat People

    02024HD

    After being jailed by the Macoutes for complaining about worker exploitation at the baseball factory where he worked, a Haitian man and his family att...

    Boat People
  • 1991
    On the Waves of the Adriatic

    On the Waves of the Adriatic

    On the Waves of the Adriatic

    01991HD

    Melbourne filmmaker Brian McKenzie spent 5 years working on this engrossing study of a not-so-typical Brunswick household. It's a laconic, observation...

    On the Waves of the Adriatic
  • 1983
    The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis

    The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis

    The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis

    01983HD

    Fifteen-year-old Pavle Hromiš, obeying the will of his parents, leaves Germany and goes to live in Yugoslavia with his grandmother. He has problems wi...

    The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis