Immigrant Movies

In 1989, Tabinda Sheikh immigrated from the Dominican Republic and got a job in a New York City hotel as a housekeeper. It was there that she caught...

A Senegalese storyteller travels to Belgium and observes the lives of African expatriates in Europe. Dreams and struggles great and small are...

A Muslim woman wears a mandatory hijab in public while secretly unveiling her true self in acting class. When her religious husband finds out, she is...

After World War II, 4,000 Polish families came to Australia. They were Jews, Fascists, anti-Communists, and others dispossessed. In a large hostel,...

Marko, Adi, Aco and Dejan hag out in front of block of flats in Fuzine. Marko is pissed because he quit playing basketball and because the sexy TV...

In 1915 a young, charismatic Japanese man with a mysterious past entered into the Appalachian culture of Asheville, North Carolina, is suspicioned a...

Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect...

Claudia finds the diary her mother wrote at 17 after migrating from Peru to Chile. Reading it, she embarks on a journey into the past, reconstructing...

The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who...

The meaty saga of Burger Baron, a rogue fast-food chain with mysterious origins and a cult following, run by a loose network of fiercely independent...

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

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...

A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better their lives, but she finds that most of her...

In order to immigrate into Clean Island, a woman who lived in a slaughterhouse must confess her sins, but all is not what it seems.

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

A migrant tale of sisterhood and music celebrating unconventional friendships and the power of diversity.

The encounter with a growing, and mostly undocumented, brazilian community allows us to bear witness to its energy, its vivacity, and its diversity....

A Finnish documentary follows four young men who have one year to find new love in Helsinki.

I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.