Immigrant Movies

In the middle of an existential crisis, Ariana, a Peruvian filmmaker living in LA, seeks to give meaning to her migration experience by writing a...

Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.

A prosperous small-town peddler accedes to his family's wish to move from their secure existence to the uncertainty of New York City. It proves...

The lives of two asylum seekers fleeing post-social unrest in their home city intertwine in Britain, starting a romance that tests their resilience...

When Avtar Bhullar immigrates to British Columbia, he faces systemic racism and physical intimidation—his answer: Kushti, a traditional Indian...

After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a...

In a reimagining of a first-generation immigrant's experience, this short film follows the director's mother moving from Nigeria to Peckham.

Tells the story of Larry and Trudie Long, a popular Asian American nightclub act of the '40s and '50s, told through the eyes of their daughter,...

To My Motherland is an experimental personal essay film that blends personal photographs and home videos to explore the complexities of immigration,...

Tells the story of an African immigrant surviving on the fringes of New York City where music is his passion, life is a hustle and falling in love is...

An 11-year-old illegal immigrant seeks the guidance of a reluctant, old man to help him win the heart of his first love at school, while he cleverly...

A composer and his daughter emigrate to America in the hope that he can sell his symphony. But he meets with little success and begins to give up...

Fatma and her mother are Kurdish refugees living in Italy. One day at the hospital, Fatma learns her mother has breast cancer.

In a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in financial debt, struggles to survive through...

Made in L.A. follows the remarkable story of three Latina immigrants working in Los Angeles garment sweatshops as they embark on a three-year odyssey...

Following the unexpected death of his fiancée the night before his wedding, Ralph's desire to ever love again is shattered. Then he meets...

Following the death of a guest at a rural hotel, an immigrant employee struggles to navigate his way through a world where indifference is abundant...

A young immigrant single-dad is tasked with teaching his daughter English, which he does through American sitcoms.

In 1975, a seven-months pregnant Vietnamese refugee, Giap, escapes Saigon in a boat and, within weeks, finds herself working on an assembly line in...

Its Autumn, birds are migrating to warmer climate. On the gray streets of Paris, illegal immigrants are selling shoes. Winter is near.