Immigrant Movies

The suitcase is packed and placed in the middle of the room, the door to the apartment is open, but something is preventing him from leaving. KROONG...

Follow Tony Ruggeri, host of the podcast "São Paulo: Crime and Punishment", as he narrates the story of Paulinho Zanini, a resident of the...

Closeted trans girl, Ruby fails to assert her identity to her Thai Immigrant mother. However, after an intimate encounter with an older trans woman,...

It's 1849 and everyone wants to make his way to San Francisco for that golden opportunity. Jorge, a poor Mexican peasant, and his son Fernando...

Set on the day of the General Election 2015, twelve people - a cross-section of British culture - voice their own opinions in this fast moving...

An immigrant Chinese wife joins her husband in 1950s America after he graduates from the university.

João, a Portuguese performing arts student, is finishing his schooling season in Rio de Janeiro. It’s his last week this side of the...

Samuel, a young Venezuelan, emigrates from his country in search of a better life and to help his family, without knowing the difficult situations...

Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.

Fifteen-year-old Pavle Hromiš, obeying the will of his parents, leaves Germany and goes to live in Yugoslavia with his grandmother. He has...

From humble beginnings in a small slate roofed village in Greece to the heyday of America's movie palaces, the Latchis Family built an empire of...

A short documentary that follows Korean grandparents as they share their modern-day reckoning of their immigration story and grandparenthood.

Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Serbia, placed in asylum centers after their dramatic journeys from war-torn and poverty-stricken areas of...

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

Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America is an award-winning 2016 documentary about Moises Serrano, who grew up queer and undocumented in...

Wheels of Fate is a short documentary film about identity, belonging and acceptance. It reflects on Ryan Espadilla's experience immigrating to New...

Teachings of an Issei. Advice, spirituality and challenges.

They say you can start over, but if the music in your head is different, and the smells aren’t the same... then what? Where is that start? In...

A closely observed portrait of a single man in his 40's who lives in St. Kilda. Although he has none of the trappings of conventional existence,...

Five years after losing his wife in the Ukrainian flight PS752 tragedy, an immigrant living in Toronto searches for meaning in the heart of the loss...