Immigrant Movies

  • 2002
    Dim Sum (A Little Bit of Heart)

    Dim Sum (A Little Bit of Heart)

    Dim Sum (A Little Bit of Heart)

    02002HD

    Documentarist Jane Wong films her mother and two Chinese friends as they discuss their lives and experiences as émigrés living in...

    Dim Sum (A Little Bit of Heart)
  • 2010
    A Small Town Called Descent

    A Small Town Called Descent

    A Small Town Called Descent

    02010HD

    Somewhere in a remote part of South Africa a heinous crime is committed. Against the backdrop of xenophobic riots that have swept across the country,...

    A Small Town Called Descent
  • 1982
    Displaced Person

    Displaced Person

    Displaced Person

    01982HD

    Peter, whose father was a member of the Home Guard collaboration forces and a political emigrant, returns from Argentina to Slovenia, his...

    Displaced Person
  • 2018
    Bonobo

    Bonobo

    Bonobo

    5.52018HD

    A mosaic of interrelated characters living in the same social housing project and all in search of happiness, forgiveness and meaning.

    Bonobo
  • 2019
    Massacre River

    Massacre River

    Massacre River

    02019HD

    Pikilina is a Dominican-born woman of Haitian descent. Racial and political violence erupts when the country of her birth, the Dominican Republic,...

    Massacre River
  • 2022
    Nidhal

    Nidhal

    Nidhal

    12022HD

    Between reality and animation, the story of Nidhal is told, a young homosexual Tunisian who defended individual freedoms in Tunisia through his work...

    Nidhal
  • 2022
    Perianayaki

    Perianayaki

    Perianayaki

    02022HD

    Fifty-six-year-old Perianayaki contends with the difficulties of fitting into her new home, especially at the local supermarket where she works....

    Perianayaki
  • 1982
    Finnish American Lives

    Finnish American Lives

    Finnish American Lives

    01982HD

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

    Finnish American Lives
  • 2024
    Scheduling My Grief

    Scheduling My Grief

    Scheduling My Grief

    102024HD

    Following the passing of British-Ugandan teen Nia’s grandmother, she struggles with the guilt of not being able to mourn her death. Through...

    Scheduling My Grief
  • 2023
    Pulp

    Pulp

    Pulp

    02023HD

    A first-generation college senior confronts the realities of generational trauma, while preparing an original piece for an upcoming violin audition.

    Pulp
  • 2018
    Land of My Children

    Land of My Children

    Land of My Children

    62018HD

    Darío Aguirre moved from Ecuador to Germany to be with Stephanie, but from the very first day there was a third party in their...

    Land of My Children
  • 2021
    OCUPAÇÃO DOS IMIGRANTES: JEAN-JAQUES DESSALINES

    OCUPAÇÃO DOS IMIGRANTES: JEAN-JAQUES DESSALINES

    OCUPAÇÃO DOS IMIGRANTES: JEAN-JAQUES DESSALINES

    02021HD

    OCUPAÇÃO DOS IMIGRANTES: JEAN-JAQUES DESSALINES
  • 2015
    Detained

    Detained

    Detained

    72015HD

    A documentary from within the Swedish Migration Board's locked repository where people are in custody awaiting forced deportation. Prisoner and guard...

    Detained
  • 2022
    Bad Honey

    Bad Honey

    Bad Honey

    02022HD

    At the beginning of the 20th century, a German household attempts to stay isolated from their new surroundings, in the south of Brazil. Their fear,...

    Bad Honey
  • 2019
    Amara

    Amara

    Amara

    02019HD

    From Colorado, where he has chosen to live, Fouad Mennana begins to trace his late grandfather - Amara Mennana - an Algerian farmer expropriated from...

    Amara
  • 2023
    Post Term

    Post Term

    Post Term

    02023HD

    Expecting their first child, a married couple struggles to find romance and connection while building a new life together in America.

    Post Term
  • 2013
    The Adventure

    The Adventure

    The Adventure

    02013HD

    In 2011, as tens of thousands of migrants, Loss, and Madess Moussa arrived in Europe via Turkey. Required by EU law to remain in Greece, they only...

    The Adventure
  • 1988
    The Lure and the Lore

    The Lure and the Lore

    The Lure and the Lore

    01988HD

    A collaboration between filmmaker Ayoka Chenzira and performance artist Thomas Pinnock, who performs his "immigrant folktales" using traditional lore...

    The Lure and the Lore
  • 2015
    Logbook_Serbistan

    Logbook_Serbistan

    Logbook_Serbistan

    5.22015HD

    Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers in Serbia, placed in asylum centers after their dramatic journeys from war-torn and poverty-stricken areas of...

    Logbook_Serbistan
  • 2018
    They Live Here, Now

    They Live Here, Now

    They Live Here, Now

    32018HD

    Austin based refugee house, Casa Marianella, is one of the most prominent refugee houses in the United States, providing life saving services for...

    They Live Here, Now