Immigration Movies

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...

A single middle-aged man trapped in frustration and loneliness in Toronto communicates with a divorced woman, and they help from thousands of miles...

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...

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...

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...

A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning...

At the turn of the century, Sephardic Jews fled the turmoil of their homeland to start a new life in America. Filled with interviews, archival photos...

A documentary that measures the cost of providing amnesty to millions of illegal aliens.

The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC), with The San Francisco Foundation...

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.

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

Captured during his francisation courses in Montreal, Adad Hannah constructs a playful video portrait of the different people and backgrounds that...

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

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...

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...

Follows the history of the Cameleers, men who opened large areas of land in the Australian central desert using camels, and their struggle to be...

"With border crossings reaching record highs in recent years, immigration has returned as the US election’s most toxic issue. "As Donald Trump...

Natives of the New World is a short documentary film shot on cell phones by the Kino Mosaik collective, which was founded in Lesbos Island, Greece,...

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

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