Immigration Movies

At the turn of the century, Sephardic Jews fled the turmoil of their homeland to start a new life in America. Filled with interviews, archival photos...

Migrating is seldom an easy solution. It is rather a journey, that begins with a journey. After more than eight years of campaigning, the immigrant...

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for...

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States

Documentary that shows the changing attitude towards immigrant labor in The Netherlands. The documentary follows three immigrants that arrived in...

A documentary that measures the cost of providing amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

Three boys and three girls. All born in the Middle East now living in Sweden. All with different views of Islam, integration, the World and Sweden. ...

Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends...

This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the...

Buscando A Leti - In Search of Leti, is written and performed in Spanish, subtitled in English. Leti, a ten-year-old girl, is the protagonist of this...

An intimate close-up on Aleya, a trans woman who has recently moved from Cairo to germany right after her transition. This portrait marks her first...

In 2024, during an artistic residency at Periférne Centrá (Dúbravica, Slovakia), Cristian Estrella filmed the folkumentary...

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...

It began with a bus crashing through the gates of an embassy in Havana and unraveled into one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human...

“Jews of the Wild West” is a feature-length documentary completed in December 2021. The independent not-for-profit project is produced by...

An undocumented immigrant receives a heartwarming yet heartbreaking phone call from his daughter across the border.

Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison in Texas in 2007-8 leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover...

A young woman flees from immigration police, desperate to escape an inevitable fate. As the tension builds in a single continuous shot, her options...

A documentary about a night café called Walkers, its workers and the youth – largely immigrants – populating the café...