Immigration Movies

Si mis campos hablaran is a 1947 Chilean film directed by José Bohr. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.

The start of the Yugoslav civil war forces freshly graduated Mina to choose between being an obedient daughter or escaping abroad with her lover so...

Examines how the Immigration and Naturalization Service decides who will be granted asylum in the United States. The applicant must have a...

Carmela, don Gregorio, Gabriella and Lorella have never met but they have a lot in common. In the mid 60's, at the peak of the great migratory wave,...

More than 37,000 Chinese citizens entered the US illegally via its southern border in 2023, hoping to find a better life in America. Many more are...

In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their homeland to save their lives, and in the...

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...

A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child. The film introduces viewers to a...

Mateo, 17, prepares to migrate to Los Angeles in order to support his humble family in their small Zapotec village in southern Mexico, yet before he...

Documentary on the attempted murder of two Mexican day laborers in Farmingville, New York.

Two Brazilian immigrants in New York become determined to seek revenge after a family member's murder goes unpunished.

An undocumented immigrant explores his and his family's immigration trauma while grasping hope through a voicemail.

Sofija and Miroslav are two immigrants who live in France without papers with their two sons. To avoid being evicted, the State proposes them a grant...

When Ader Ismail fled from Somalia to Sweden, she thought it would not take long for her five children to join her. But the years go by and the...

Life intersects between an Afghan refugee boy and a Hong Kong migrant girl in Britain.

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...

Documentary exploring the effect of mass immigration on the dwindling white community of the East End, from the perspective of those who remain and...

One million people legally cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day in both directions. Among them are women from Ciudad Juárez who cross to...