Immigration Movies

A short film documenting the immigrant experience. Open-borders? Policing? Naturalizing? Etc.

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

A short film / documentary that depicts the daily grind of first-generation immigrants in Australia.

Seven strangers are interviewed to talk about the relationship they have with their mother.

Fearing for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patricia fled their country, without their parents, when they were only children. They had to start all...

Rey, a first-generation American, embarks on a nightlong search for his missing $215 million winning lottery ticket. On the journey, Rey wrestles...

Outaouais, summer 1996. Solange, a 23-year-old Rwandan refugee, finds political asylum in Hull with her four-year-old daughter Lisa. Their...

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

A couple receives a letter of eviction: they must leave their home in Trento within 60 days. They are two political refugees: he is Afghan and she is...

The film is a story of immigration and identity after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Mihajlo Jevtic. It...

This documentary explores the many questions raised by Canada's immigration policy in the face of one of the world's largest immigration movements....

Young migrants from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Serbia and Venezuela attend a Swiss integration class where they learn a new language and prepare for...

A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child. The film introduces viewers to a...

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...

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

Over a thousand immigrant workers from the highland of Maya community of Jacaltenango, Guatemala live and work in Jupiter, Florida, a costal resort...

Life is a question of luck.