Immigration Filmes

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

The day of the cremation of her grand mother, Emilie, a young mixed-race Asian girl, buries herself into her grandmother memories. She discovers the...

Boiling Point (original title Kiehumispiste) describes the different reactions the Finnish people had to the large immigration amounts in 2015-2016.

Over a thousand immigrant workers from the highland of Maya community of Jacaltenango, Guatemala live and work in Jupiter, Florida, a costal resort...

Life is a question of luck.

A Palestinian activist's fight for freedom draws a Japanese American filmmaker into confrontation with detention regimes of past and present.

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

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...

"Ellis Island Tales" - From 1892 to 1924, nearly 16 million emigrants from Europe passed through Ellis Island, a small block of land where a transit...

In 1979, after the Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan, millions of Afghans were forced to leave their homeland to save their lives, and in the...

Irpinia follows the journey of young West Indian dreamer Dudley as he makes his way to England in the 1960s. At 24 years old, Dudley boarded a ship...

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...

At the end of a quarry, in a godforsaken place called Rotzloch, a new life begins for four young men.

Little Orso meets Zelal, same age as him, but profoundly different.

Carnotstraat 17 is a feature documentary looking more closely into the effect on someone’s identity through migration.

Because of the poor employment situation in Finland, many families and single people decided to move to Sweden to seek employment in the 1960s and...

“Sambal Belacan in San Francisco” is a documentary which revolves around three women from Singapore who move to San Francisco in the...

During World War II, many Japanese immigrants in Santos, Brazil, were forced to move to another place. Matsubayashi draws attention to the fact that...

Andres Kurg is an art historian who likes Danish modernist architecture and therefore wants to settle there. He argues with Danish officials to grant...

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