Immigration Movies

Over a thousand immigrant workers from the highland of Maya community of Jacaltenango, Guatemala live and work in Jupiter, Florida, a costal resort...

A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning...

The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life poetically narrates the story of a community of Iranian Americans who have made the San...

Private-sector rented accommodation for the Surinamese and Antillean Dutch who increasingly moved to Amsterdam from these former colonies in the...

This film focuses on the basics of adapting to life in England.

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

In 2024, 82 people lost their lives crossing the English Channel while seeking safety in the UK. In the wake of grief, a poignant journey along the...

In Surinamers in Nederland: De terugkeer van het zwarte goud, we see Surinamese people arriving in the Netherlands, unsure of what to expect, and...

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

A documentary that explores the human and financial costs of illegal immigration.

This documentary by Dan Glynn follows the personal story of Jairo, a hard-working Mexican who immigrates to the US in order to find work to support...

Turkish women in the Federal Republic of Germany work on the assembly line, provide for their families and are isolated. In Remscheid, a group from...

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

Since 1995, the TransAsia Sisters Association has been a pioneering force in supporting immigrant women in Taiwan, especially marriage migrants. What...

A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.

A young woman who has migrated to Istanbul tells her family that she has built a successful life, while secretly living a very different reality at...

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

In early summer of 2025, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials began detaining migrants at their asylum hearings, an ad-hoc...