Immigration Movies

A short film documenting the immigrant experience. Open-borders? Policing? Naturalizing? Etc.

Citizens of the Ivian Federation share the problems and POVs of immigration in the country in this mockumentary feature.

Documentary about sub-Saharan immigration in Spain and Argentina focusing especially on the Senegalese community

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

Immigration is a new chapter in one's life, a chapter with unexpected events that can take one's life down paths different from the one imagined....

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...

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

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...

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

English teacher Kofi Frimpong is starting classes once again for immigrants at a local language school in Toronto. Before starting the lesson,...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

In early summer of 2025, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials began detaining migrants at their asylum hearings, an ad-hoc...

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

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