Immigration Movies

The story of an immigrant woman struggling against old world traditions. Zouina leaves her homeland with her three children to join her husband in...

James Cunningham's short film MONTSERRAT offers a poignant and introspective portrait of the Australian immigrant experience, encapsulated through...

Faced with deportation at the end of his work permit, an Asian employee tries to get hate-crimed to secure a green card.

A documentary about Basque inmigrants who went to USA looking for work and a better future. Basically, Amerikanuak talks about feeling homesick,...

As a talented Turkish swimmer grapples with her mother's terminal illness back home, she navigates the pressures of maintaining her scholarship in...

Desperate to escape her traditional suburban life in upstate New York, a teen joins a foreign exchange program in Costa Rica in search of freedom....

When a seemingly normal malfunction occurs when trying to close his garage door, frustration changes to fear as Mike gets to grips with his...

The film is about the difficult situation in which the Pakistanis in particular and the Muslims in general are caught up since 9/11. There is a war...

Kye-na, an average woman in her late twenties, holds a steady job and a committed boyfriend, Ji-myoung. Yet instead of feeling content, she...

The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving...

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the...

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through Mexico and on to the United States, with the...

An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.

A bike-messenger trapped in an immigration scam finds himself in a sticky situation as things get violent.

Actor Yoo Ji-Tae’s directorial debut feature film is one part melodrama, one part comingof-age story about Soo-young, a miserable...

On a slag heap, where coal miners used to tramp, men are now awaiting each other.

Teo, a gay Guatemalan musician, flees a brutal homophobic attack. Ray, an American doctor, escapes his past after a fatal mistake. When their paths...

Susan, a grieving single mother, embarks on a desperate cross-country journey through the New Mexico desert after losing her daughter, determined to...

Fearing for their lives, Afshin, Alain and Patricia fled their country, without their parents, when they were only children. They had to start all...