Immigrant Movies

A 45 your old African living in Australia from Burundi does not have an easy life. He does not speak English well, he has issues even doing his...

A young African boy with a haunting backstory starts school in Ireland and quickly finds out exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best...

A personal documentary in which a filmmaker explores love and the meaning of home through the lives and memories of their family.

An undocumented immigrant, Roberto, seeks a way to become lawful, but all efforts are put on hold when he becomes a new father at the onset of the US...

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution...

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a...

Following the unexpected death of his fiancée the night before his wedding, Ralph's desire to ever love again is shattered. Then he meets...

Two men, the hint of a sofa corner and a pile of letters. Using minimalist means, the film tells the story of two brothers caught between exile in a...

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

Over five thousand people illegally cross the border each day. There are areas where crime is at its highest, where criminals prey upon these...

An 11-year-old illegal immigrant seeks the guidance of a reluctant, old man to help him win the heart of his first love at school, while he cleverly...

Fouad, a 15-year-old Moroccan immigrant, and Max, a 27-year-old "old stock" Quebecer, both live frustrating lives. Their respective destinies lead...

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

Tales from Arab Detroit is a video documentary offering a fascinating glimpse into the lives and struggles of the Arab American community in the...

When immigrants Attila and Jana resettle in a rural Australian town as part of a government policy to populate isolated areas, they consider...

To My Motherland is an experimental personal essay film that blends personal photographs and home videos to explore the complexities of immigration,...

A collaboration between filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira and performance artist Thomas Pinnock, who performs his "immigrant folktales" using traditional lore...

Five defense workers on their way to the munitions factory tell their stories: a refugee from the French Resistance, a frustrated race car driver, a...