Immigrant Movies

With humor, insight, and compassion, this documentary shares the journey of two Italian brothers who have run a successful restaurant for over 40...

In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria recalls her life in...

Pathemari features the life of Pallikkal Narayanan who migrated to the Middle-East in the early 1980s, when the Kerala Gulf boom was at its peak.

In pre-WWII Vancouver, second-generation Japanese immigrants had it tough. Daily, they faced discrimination, hatred and injustice at the hands of...

Pikilina is a Dominican-born woman of Haitian descent. Racial and political violence erupts when the country of her birth, the Dominican Republic,...

A Filipino immigrant struggles to maintain his façade of success in Vancouver when his family in Manila asks for a hard favour.

After getting out of prison, a Latino criminal tries to go straight.

A young African boy with a haunting backstory starts school in Ireland and quickly finds out exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best...

Kurt Schneider is a superficial and funloving character. Instigated by his mother he swindles his way into the legacy of a house and some money. Both...

18-year-old Lina arrives in Paris for her studies. She comes to look for what she has never found in Lebanon, her country of origin: a certain form...

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building...

In 1915 a young, charismatic Japanese man with a mysterious past entered into the Appalachian culture of Asheville, North Carolina, is suspicioned a...

Karel Novak is an incredibly naive Czech immigrant who is taken under the wing of streetwise New York chorus girl Sylvia. With the help of lovable...

This film recreates the true story of Tom Sukanen, an eccentric Finnish immigrant who homesteaded in Saskatchewan in the 1920s and 1930s. Sukanen...

An Indian immigrant awakens inside a confined metal box, with the walls slowly closing in... unless he can do the work assigned to him.

The encounter with a growing, and mostly undocumented, brazilian community allows us to bear witness to its energy, its vivacity, and its diversity....

The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who...

Valentina Moreno, a single mother who works as a housekeeper for a wealthy Manhattan family, takes decisive action when something from her past...

In the early 1990s, a European immigrant with a young family struggles to chase the American Dream, while avoiding the life he left behind.

AMERICAN SONS is a provocative examination of how racism shapes the lives of Asian American men. A simple but compelling performance piece featuring...