Immigration Movies

An Iranian journalist couple wants to move to America to escape the difficulties of their country. The woman receives her visa but her husband...

A woman awakes on a surreal purgatorial island after being mistakenly declared dead.

The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving...

A woman is forced to leave Venezuela, where she has lived for 28 years. She wonders what to pack in her suitcase.

After a shipwreck, a Syrian girl arrives alone on a Sicilian island. A doctor sets out to find her origins and her mother.

Ten-year-old Moises has just immigrated to California from Mexico. He doesn't speak English, but he's good at math, so he hopes to do well on his...

Xavier is a 40-year-old father of two who still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can't bear them...

The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives.

Allison Westlin, a Los Angeles-based immigration lawyer and single mother, investigates a murder with the help of private detective Mario Sparks and...

The cross-frontier migrant's life 'within the system' - an endless, featureless, futureless round of queues - becomes even bleaker in December. Bipul...

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...

An immigrant boy faces difficulty growing up in Toronto's apartment slums.

After a disastrous event on his construction site, Armando acts quickly to save his crew, but instead stumbles upon an unspeakable truth.

Three intertwining stories that take place in La Salada — the largest unregulated market in Buenos Aires: a Korean father prepares his daughter...

A college professor travels to New York City to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment.

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the...

After their boat capsizes in the Mediterranean Sea, a group of refugees are rescued by rich Europeans who offer them shelter on an idyllic island....

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

A man and his dog cross the desert in search of La Frontera, a mighty river that represents the geographical limit with the neighboring territory....