Immigration Movies

A Liberian refugee SAM REAYAH and his family have been separated for five years and live in uncertainty waiting for family reunion. While Sam and his...

On the day of the 10th year anniversary of him leaving his home country and facing a recent loss, a young man begins to have a painful physical...

Gabriel travels from Guatemala to Barcelona for his estranged brother’s funeral, only to find out he's going to be cremated.

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

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...

A film about Princesse, a 9-year-old Cameroonian, and her father, who leaves Africa to make their dreams come true. The two keep in touch through...

The filmmaker’s grandmother moved into this house in 1971. When Rolande Ségalini died, everything remained as it was during her...

Ways of Being Home explores the immigrant experience from the perspective of the Mexican community living in Northfield, a college town in southern...

In this gripping short drama, Domé, a young woman from Gabon who speaks flawless French, is apprehended at the airport on her way into...

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

A computer screen, images from the four corners of the world. We cross borders in one-click while another trip’s story reach us in bits,...

Ten-year-old Moises has just immigrated to California from Mexico. He doesn't speak English, but he's good at math, so he hopes to do well on his...

An Iranian boy moves to Luxembourg and forms a friendship with a girl with whom he has no language in common.

During World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another place. Matsubayashi draws attention to the fact that...

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

Two Brazilian immigrants in New York become determined to seek revenge after a family member's murder goes unpunished.