Immigration Movies

A Palestinian activist's fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present.

Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison in Texas in 2007-8 leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover...

Told through the eyes of 15-year-old Jamil Sunsin, Colossus is a modern-day immigrant tale of one family's desperate struggle after deportation leads...

A documentary released in 1985 about the Mothers of Place Vendôme.

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...

This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the...

When Ilse Cruz was a toddler, she and her mom immigrated from Mexico to Chicago in search of better opportunities. Now a passionate dancer and...

From the “integration model” to the “Islamist fanatic”, France fantasizes about these children of immigrants who grew up with...

Every week thousands of beef cattle are transported from Europe across the Mediterranean towards the Middle East. Aeode follows a Syrian sailor as he...

For Ababacar and Mbaye - two Senegalese immigrants who met and established a great friendship in Buenos Aires - the challenge goes beyond adapting to...

"Ellis Island Tales" - From 1892 to 1924, nearly 16 million emigrants from Europe passed through Ellis Island, a small block of land where a transit...

A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning...

In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their homeland to save their lives, and in the...

Irpinia follows the journey of young West Indian dreamer Dudley as he makes his way to England in the 1960s. At 24 years old, Dudley boarded a ship...

Migrating is seldom an easy solution. It is rather a journey, that begins with a journey. After more than eight years of campaigning, the immigrant...

Artist Ramiro Gomez advocates for domestic laborers through an art instillation in the Sonoran Desert, in tribute to his immigrant roots.

Russian Jewish family immigrates to Israel; even stranger than the air raid is the behavior of their new fellow countrymen.

A girl is on the verge of immigrating and leaving her home behind, while memories of her childhood linger in every corner of the room.

Brussels, Béguinage church. Migrants organize a hunger strike to obtain papers. A man dies. Tunisia, Libya. A border camp of Choucha refugees...

Little Orso meets Zelal, same age as him, but profoundly different.