Immigration Movies

An Egyptian-American returns to his homeland after twenty years abroad, filled with nostalgia and high hopes. But as he reconnects with his roots, he...

Brussels, Béguinage church. Migrants organize a hunger strike to obtain papers. A man dies. Tunisia, Libya. A border camp of Choucha refugees...

ICE: three letters long unfamiliar to the general public. Established in 2003 in response to the 9/11 attacks, this federal agency—part of the...

Two high-school students, one French and one Algerian, have grown up together. Their friendship initially crosses the national and political division...

Having recently moved to Montreal, Artiste, a 17-year-old African boy, infiltrates a street basketball competition for the chance to win a dream pair...

Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his estranged father renovate the family lake house...

A Vietnamese immigrant mother and daughter in the US argue over how to honor the late patriarch as they shop for his second death anniversary, and...

Artistic director of the National Theater Eric de Vroedt writes and directs a performance about his own mother Winnie, who passed away in 2020. This...

Hong Kong native Lee Kay moves to NYC's Chinatown while attending college. When she learns that her boyfriend's cheating, her cousin comforts her.

The Chinese dream of Florent, a young French graduate, turns into a nightmare. He is desperate to survive in the Far East. He crosses paths with...

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

Malika was supposed to meet her biological mother that day, but she prefers to follow Mimoun, an old Algerian man struggling to come to terms with...

Anna, a young Czech doctor, gets held up at US immigration after a humanitarian trip to Uganda, the day her boyfriend wants to propose to her.

This Cinderella story blends the emotional resonance of Under the Same Moon with the transformational charm of My Fair Lady. At its center is...

Cabir believes he killed a man while fleeing the police in the Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian border area. His feelings of guilt pursue him like a ghost....

Lucky, an undocumented immigrant, struggles to make his way in New York but finds himself caught in a web of crime and murder, forcing him to take...

A Nepalese family navigate cultural differences in the US, and the complications social media can cause. Despite their struggles and fears, the...