Immigration Movies

This Saturday is a Turkish wedding day at Espace Venise. Huddled in a car in the parking lot, 21-year-old Fatih wants to get married. He has set his...

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...

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

The story of a successful Greek immigrant, the restaurant owner Giorgos Kozompolis, who emigrated in the mid 1960’s from the poor village of...

Ways of Being Home explores the immigrant experience from the perspective of the Mexican community living in Northfield, a college town in southern...

Two groups of Venezuelan dancers, while preparing for a dance battle, survive at traffic lights in the streets of Medellín. A group reflection...

“Forgetting is complicit in recidivism,” says the commentary of this film dedicated to the demonstration of October 17, 1961 in Paris and...

Artist Ramiro Gomez advocates for domestic laborers through an art instillation in the Sonoran Desert, in tribute to his immigrant roots.

My Thu, an immigrant of Vietnamese origin who had to flee her country during the war, faces an eviction order from her Montreal apartment. In the...

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

Gabriel travels from Guatemala to Barcelona for his estranged brother’s funeral, only to find out he's going to be cremated.

Mohammed Alsaleh, a young Syrian refugee, is rebuilding his life after being granted asylum in Canada. In Vancouver, he counsels and helps resettle...

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

This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

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

In Greensboro, NC, a small church community offers sanctuary to Juana Ortega, a Guatemalan grandmother threatened with deportation after 25 years of...

Private-sector rented accommodation for the Surinamese and Antillean Dutch who increasingly moved to Amsterdam from these former colonies in the...

One night, nine children from the same Tunisian village attempt the deadly crossing. Like a poem or a prayer, this film welcomes the words of...

A short film / documentary that depicts the daily grind of first-generation immigrants in Australia.