Immigrant Movies

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

A young Israeli arrives in New York City but the person with whom he was meant to stay goes AWOL. The Israeli befriends a young, American singer and...

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

Evaporating Borders is a poetically photographed and rendered film on tolerance and search for identity. Told through 5 vignettes portraying the...

Melbourne filmmaker Brian McKenzie spent 5 years working on this engrossing study of a not-so-typical Brunswick household. It's a laconic,...

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

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

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

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

By asking the same question across generations of Southern Chinese in the UK, this film documents a vignette of two recent Hong Kong immigrants and...

A documentary exploring the experiences and attitudes of Indian and Pakistani taxi drivers in New York City while also questioning the filmmaker's...

Documentary Film maker, Mark Brown, attempts to discover the damaging effect the over-spilling immigrant population has on the coastal city of...

When Dolores, an undocumented immigrant who lives alone, discovers $3 million in cash, her life takes a sudden and unexpected turn.

Santiago Domingo is a child of an immigrant who is concerned about the recent changes on immigrants. As he retells the day where he found out these...

The idea for this film comes from the encounter with two African boys who live in Rome, and is based on their music. Tunisian Afif and Senegalese...

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

A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English...

Tensions, along with demons from the past, rise as a young farmer, the mashgiach (kosher supervisor) and the local Rabbi try to decide what to do...

Chinese for Affirmative Action is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Award for being "a champion against discrimination and for...

In a reimagining of a first-generation immigrant's experience, this short film follows the director's mother moving from Nigeria to Peckham.