Immigration Movies

An hour-long portrait of Canadian immigration lawyer, M. Lee Cohen, renowned for his work with refugees. The film follows his representation of Sonya...

November 2017, North of Paris : H. Reiner-Onet cleaning company workers are fighting an exemplary battle. This 45 days strike, one of the...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends...

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...

When an Arizona resident is charged with three felony counts and faces a 20-year prison sentence for helping migrants, his community grapples with...

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

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

A documentary about Basque inmigrants who went to USA looking for work and a better future. Basically, Amerikanuak talks about feeling homesick,...

Chema is an expat architect from Spain who lives in Amsterdam. He has built up a new life there as a wind-up toy maker. He creates small pieces of...

Djamel and his deaf-mute companion Karim, both of North African origin, live in the middle of the materials they collect in their suburb. One evening...

Life for refugees and migrants stuck at Calais: Filmed amidst the camps, the beaches, the sea and the sky, impressions of the lived experiences of...

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

An Iranian journalist couple wants to move to America to escape the difficulties of their country. The woman receives her visa but her husband...