Immigrant Movies

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short, narrator John Nesbitt tells the story of Scandinavian immigrant Annie Swenson, who worked as cook...

An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution...

A boy struggles to reconcile his burgeoning queer identity with his filial duties and expectations from his Chinese immigrant mother.

An Outback farmer takes in an Afghani woman who has fled from a brothel.

The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be...

Based on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast...

A gritty, emotional, and culturally explosive crime drama rooted in the Vietnamese and Black communities of East Oakland, California.

In Marseille, the young Serbian-Albanian Adria Shala is an illegal immigrant traumatized by her past. Every now and then Adria recalls her life in...

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...

Zhang, a middle-aged Chinese immigrant, visits the grieving family of his former lover, Ming. Over one afternoon in Queens, he connects with...

In 1986, Louis Malle examines the immigrant experience in America by interviewing newcomers from various professions nationwide, highlighting their...

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...

Claudia finds the diary her mother wrote at 17 after migrating from Peru to Chile. Reading it, she embarks on a journey into the past, reconstructing...

Matoom, a young Thai boy comes to the gradual understanding on the ephemerality of his family life through his re-collected memories - inspired by...

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...

An ill Central American single mother risks her life in order to give her son a stable future in the United States.

After her husband is abducted in Kashmir, a traumatised woman flees to the United States with her young son to rebuild their lives.

Co-directed by acclaimed cinematographer Ellen Kuras and subject Thavisouk Phrasavath, this haunting documentary chronicles a refugee family’s...

In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour strike.

Eight-year-old Elvis’ world begins to sink when his mother marries an immigrant stranger for money.