Immigrant Movies

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

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

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

A panicked woman embarks on a quest for power.

Generation One is a short documentary that explores the perspectives of the American-born children of Arab Muslim immigrants as they navigate their...

A desperate journey in the heart of Thessaloniki. Seven Iranians, each one for his personal reasons, leave their homeland and embark on a life...

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...

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

Jhoana is a Colombian immigrant who turns to surrogacy to make ends meet and allow her to care for her young son. She meets other women in similar...

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

Follows Vietnamese migrant workers, to examine the reasons behind their numerous escapes and to trace the family situations of those who were...

Fleeing violence and persecution, refugees start new lives in the rural town of Storm Lake, Iowa, working the meatpacking line by day and reaching...

ICE conducted the largest immigration raids in US history at slaughterhouses in 2019, arresting and deporting undocumented workers. Despite the...

My Baba Bozorg was a professor of literature in Tehran, Iran. He moved to Canada in 2002 to live with his son, my father. He spends his days, at...

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

A colourful look into the life of Canary Islands Immigrant Montse, her journey in Australia, and the story of connecting with your culture as a...

Two Moroccan brothers arrive in 1960s Belgium, chasing dreams buried deep in the mines of the promised land.

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

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

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