Immigration Movies

When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one...

A boy struggles to understand his strange, silent father - a Lithuanian immigrant who has become an emotional refugee in his own home.

The lives of an American expat and a half Japanese construction worker living in rural Japan are forever changed over the course of three days as...

The internationally acclaimed director and recipient of the Erasmus Award in 2007, Péter Forgács created a documentary exploring the...

Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he...

Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped...

Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later, she was jailed under suspicion of murder and...

Documentary on the attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers in Farmingville, New York.

An immigrant's story about the love that is lost when a man's wife and son finally receive visas to join him in the USA.

It is winter at an emergency shelter for the homeless in Lausanne. Every night at the door of this little-known basement facility the same entry...

When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ignites a political and media furor that culminates...

Max and Leo are 8 and 5 years old and have just immigrated to the US with their mother. Their days pass inside a tiny apartment, while they wait for...

On the day of their green card interview, a young couple confronts a dangerous immigration process.

A film about people who are leaving Serbia for economic reasons.

Part documentary, part personal essay, this experimental film combines archive imagery with the striking wintry landscapes of Alaska to tell the...

At the end of a quarry, in a godforsaken place called Rotzloch, a new life begins for four young men.

A snappy and hyper-saturated ode and eulogy to growing up in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and immigrating to Canada. A slice of life through the lens of a...

Asylum is a poignant drama that unfolds the harrowing journey of Khadija Jallow and her daughter, Khawla, seeking asylum after a political coup in...