Immigrant Movies

The days around New Year's Eve of a Nepali immigrant worker in Romania.

Kain Tayo follows Rica Piquan, the owner of Pamilihan Pinoy Asian Groceries, one of only two Filipino markets in Tucson, Arizona. Born and raised in...

Celia Adler, doyenne of the Yiddish stage, gives a haunting performance as a new immigrant forced to give up her son. Obsessed with the thought of...

Harris, a poor Bangladeshi worker in Malaysia, simply wants to return to his hometown to marry the love of his life. However, his leave is denied...

A teenager arrives from Germany to his grandparents in Novi Sad. He can't adjust to Yugoslavian schools, system or slow way of life, so he asks his...

Set in Red Hook, a Brooklyn neighborhood on the verge of gentrification, GOOD FUNK follows three generations of citizens whose lives intersect...

In 2011, as tens of thousands of migrants, Loss, and Madess Moussa arrived in Europe via Turkey. Required by EU law to remain in Greece, they only...

In the barren stretch of the motorway, Jimmy’s family diner is on the verge of extinction—until a botched drug deal drops a bag of cash...

Miki is a young Hungarian boy who cannot quite understand why he is always the target of nasty bully-attacks at school. Is it because his Mum speaks...

Between reality and animation, the story of Nidhal is told, a young homosexual Tunisian who defended individual freedoms in Tunisia through his work...

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

A Ghanaian woman, Nana Ama, finds out at airport Schiphol that her papers are false. Her dream to start a new life in the United States falls apart....

A family of Russian Jews living in New York struggles to survive, while the mother strives to better their lives, but she finds that most of her...

When Avtar Bhullar immigrates to British Columbia, he faces systemic racism and physical intimidation—his answer: Kushti, a traditional Indian...

Conrad is a gay man living in NYC. He's also CEO of an ad agency and by nature a control freak. Although Conrad is still in love with Martin (his...

Marko, Adi, Aco and Dejan hag out in front of block of flats in Fuzine. Marko is pissed because he quit playing basketball and because the sexy TV...

Documentarist Jane Wong films her mother and two Chinese friends as they discuss their lives and experiences as émigrés living in...

A trilogy of individual stories depicting an account of crucial moments in the lives of three different individuals given a chance to live with...

A prosperous small-town peddler accedes to his family's wish to move from their secure existence to the uncertainty of New York City. It proves...