Immigrant Life Movies

An indigenous migrant named Alex is put to the ultimate test, forced to enter the criminal underworld just to live another day.

Eight people from very different backgrounds cross paths in Barcelona, Spain. Lawyers, musicians, translators, security guards, call center agents....

You, one of many immigrants, settle in Houston where you make a life in this diverse, international city. Here, the livelihoods of people from across...

An adaptation of Sinai Hamada's short story. A Japanese farmer living in the Cordilleras hires a Bontoc woman to work at his farm, and eventually...

Soumia Naji explores her life in Morocco and her eventual arrival to Orlando, Florida.

The story centres around a young boy, Lee, and his mother, Mama, who go to temple on the anniversary of their father's passing

This short documentary chronicles the culture and arts of Cambodian Americans and the Lowell, MA community through the eyes of Sokhary Chau, the...

This documentary explores the circumstances, identity, and everyday lives of people of African background living in Sweden in the mid-1990s. It...

A migrant worker suffocates in the quiet aftermath of a hate crime video circulating online. As every response fails, he discovers that the only...

Nino needs to find money to buy a bus ticket to Paris. Today, She has a make-or-break interview for her right to stay in France. With her friend, she...

On a Summer afternoon, Pedro packs the last few boxes before having to leave his apartment in New York. 12 years ago, Pedro and Ana had arrived in...

Lina is a twelve-year-old Syrian girl who has just arrived at the home of Sonia, an activist who has been in refugee camps in Greece. Lina suffers a...

Wheels of Fate is a short documentary film about identity, belonging and acceptance. It reflects on Ryan Espadilla's experience immigrating to New...

Ethnographic documentary which, thanks to an one-year-and-half anthropological research with a collaborative approach, gives a deep insight into the...

A cutting edge voice in comedy, Kenyan-British comic McGrath offers acerbic takes on living in a white neighborhood, the British Empire, and more.

A simple dish haunts a young woman as she longingly attempts to recapture the nostalgia of her childhood. Spill the Beans aims to capture the sensory...

During a brief stop in the heart of a forest, Selvan, a Tamil migrant bound for England, finds himself stranded in France with no landmarks or...

"While I'm Away" is a first-year student animated short. This short is about the sense of not fully belonging to one place, and missing the other...

Evicted from his rental apartment, a Belarusian migrant finds himself distant among friends who have integrated into Polish society. Holding onto his...