Immigration Movies

A young boy has just moved to America from a foreign country with his mother. He tries to adjust to his new life, specifically in his school. He goes...

A couple receives a letter of eviction: they must leave their home in Trento within 60 days. They are two political refugees: he is Afghan and she is...

When an extraordinary new resident – Balakrishna, an Indian elephant – arrived in the town of East River, Nova Scotia, in 1967, no one...

An hour-long portrait of Canadian immigration lawyer, M. Lee Cohen, renowned for his work with refugees. The film follows his representation of Sonya...

A Latinx immigrant mother makes waves with a historic campaign to end the sharing of the Philadelphia police database with ICE.

A young woman leaves her abusive husband in Holland to seek refuge in St. Maarten. But the law has changed since the island obtained country status...

In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and sent from Korea to her new home in California. There, the memory of her birth...

Disputed with his father, Jay does everything he can to adapt himself to the city life as an immigrant.

Three generations of the Nabi family flee their home in Aleppo and try to make it to safety in Germany where some members of the family have already...

Life is a question of luck.

A family of immigrants is chased through the woods by border patrol. But they're not alone.

What if from one day to the next, you’re no longer seen, but instead are stared at? The leading characters in this multi-layered film have...

An intimate look inside the immigrant community in Portland, Maine, as told by Nyamuon Nguany Machar who arrived as refugee in 1995 and David Zwalita...

Eight-year-old Leili needs to take a pinhole picture of her family for school the next day, but her family will not cooperate.

Young, inexperienced members of the Dutch Boarder Patrol undergo an intensive training on escorting refused asylum seekers to their homeland.

Having grown up within the Cuban Revolution, in 1980, Juan Carlos Zaldívar was a 13-year-old "pioneer" jeering in the streets at the thousands...

Russian Jewish family immigrates to Israel; even stranger than the air raid is the behavior of their new fellow countrymen.

Two immigrant filmmakers journey across the US, exploring American identity through raw encounters on politics, race, immigration, and gun control....

This documentary explores the many questions raised by Canada's immigration policy in the face of one of the world's largest immigration movements....