Migrant Worker Movies

  • 1975
    The Ambassadors

    The Ambassadors

    The Ambassadors

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    “Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins;...

    The Ambassadors
  • 2003
    El Contrato

    El Contrato

    El Contrato

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    This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their...

    El Contrato
  • 2021
    Migrant Mother

    Migrant Mother

    Migrant Mother

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    Migranta tells the stories of Vicky, Betty and Lety, (three mothers who have come to Canada from Mexico as part of the federal government’s...

    Migrant Mother
  • 2014
    Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés

    Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés

    Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés

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    Perdus entre deux rives, les Chibanis oubliés
  • 2025
    Bitter Sweet Ballad

    Bitter Sweet Ballad

    Bitter Sweet Ballad

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    This is a story about youth with music. It all happens at the Dandelion School, Beijing’s first middle school specifically established for the...

    Bitter Sweet Ballad
  • 2016
    Freedom Runners

    Freedom Runners

    Freedom Runners

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    Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for his students, young African refugees whose...

    Freedom Runners
  • 2018
    YAYA

    YAYA

    YAYA

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    YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the domestic worker who spent decades away from her...

    YAYA
  • 1994
    Money for Bread

    Money for Bread

    Money for Bread

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    Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories...

    Money for Bread
  • 1970
    I Am Golden Karen

    I Am Golden Karen

    I Am Golden Karen

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    I AM GOLDEN KAREN is a coming-of-age story of Thaawa, a Karen refugee in search of his identity as a migrant in Thailand. In between puberty and...

    I Am Golden Karen
  • 2015
    Nia’s door

    Nia’s door

    Nia’s door

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    Nia from the Philippines works as a family maid in Taiwan. She prefers to stay in her private room, where a door separates her from her employers,...

    Nia’s door
  • 2024
    Nurse Unseen

    Nurse Unseen

    Nurse Unseen

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    Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on the front lines of a pandemic, thousands of miles...

    Nurse Unseen
  • 2023
    A Thousand Pines

    A Thousand Pines

    A Thousand Pines

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    In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to...

    A Thousand Pines
  • 1970
    The Blueberry Blues

    The Blueberry Blues

    The Blueberry Blues

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    Summer unveils a new blueberry season in northern Canada. The fields are covered in blue and workers from all over scramble before the frost puts an...

    The Blueberry Blues
  • 2020
    The Lucky Woman

    The Lucky Woman

    The Lucky Woman

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    This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers...

    The Lucky Woman
  • 2017
    Borders

    Borders

    Borders

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    A story which follows the borders that have silently grown between a man and a woman. Interior, emotional borders. The ones which separate us before...

    Borders
  • 2017
    The Workers Cup

    The Workers Cup

    The Workers Cup

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    Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of...

    The Workers Cup
  • 2003
    La Vie sans Brahim

    La Vie sans Brahim

    La Vie sans Brahim

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    La Vie sans Brahim
  • 2023
    Nous les ouvriers

    Nous les ouvriers

    Nous les ouvriers

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    Nous les ouvriers
  • 2017
    Terrain Vague

    Terrain Vague

    Terrain Vague

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    A worker in a big city who feels uncomfortable around women meets a sex worker, and in an attempt to overcome his hesitations, he discovers his...

    Terrain Vague
  • 2016
    Number Eighty

    Number Eighty

    Number Eighty

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    Chano is deported back to Mexico after living most of his life as an ilegal immigrant in the USA. Now, away from his wife and kids, he lives alone...

    Number Eighty