Immigration Movies

A group of children living on the streets of Athens. Among them is Sayid, a twelve-year-old boy, who works all day selling sunflower seeds in the...

A young woman who has migrated to Istanbul tells her family that she has built a successful life, while secretly living a very different reality at...

Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...

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

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

An uplifting story of an immigrant and her sixteen-year-old American car, and the experiences they share. A story of perseverance, loyalty and the...

Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

Exploring the conflicts that inhabit individuals who experience immigration, Nana is a film about origins.

Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...

A short documentary that follows Korean grandparents as they share their modern-day reckoning of their immigration story and grandparenthood.

Three young Afghans find themselves in limbo after being evacuated to the US from Kabul.

Told through the eyes of 15-year-old Jamil Sunsin, Colossus is a modern-day immigrant tale of one family's desperate struggle after deportation leads...

Since 1995, the TransAsia Sisters Association has been a pioneering force in supporting immigrant women in Taiwan, especially marriage migrants. What...

Because of the poor employment situation in Finland, many families and single people decided to move to Sweden to seek employment in the 1960s and...

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...

In Surinamers in Nederland: De terugkeer van het zwarte goud, we see Surinamese people arriving in the Netherlands, unsure of what to expect, and...

Turkish women in the Federal Republic of Germany work on the assembly line, provide for their families and are isolated. In Remscheid, a group from...