Immigrant Movies

A Muslim woman wears a mandatory hijab in public while secretly unveiling her true self in acting class. When her religious husband finds out, she is...

A hybrid experimental short film reflecting on a Latinx immigration experience.

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

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...

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

Expecting their first child, a married couple struggles to find romance and connection while building a new life together in America.

The idea for this film comes from the encounter with two African boys who live in Rome, and is based on their music. Tunisian Afif and Senegalese...

A group of children of different races and nationalities, visit the shoemaker before they organized to play.

After being jailed by the Macoutes for complaining about worker exploitation at the baseball factory where he worked, a Haitian man and his family...

A closely observed portrait of a single man in his 40's who lives in St. Kilda. Although he has none of the trappings of conventional existence,...

A Mexican housekeeper is forced to confront her past when a cartel boss appears on her doorstep.

A personal documentary in which a filmmaker explores love and the meaning of home through the lives and memories of their family.

Over five thousand people illegally cross the border each day. There are areas where crime is at its highest, where criminals prey upon these...

In the middle of an existential crisis, Ariana, a Peruvian filmmaker living in LA, seeks to give meaning to her migration experience by writing a...

Melbourne filmmaker Brian McKenzie spent 5 years working on this engrossing study of a not-so-typical Brunswick household. It's a laconic,...

This short documentary is about newcomers to Canada and what they eat. Funny, mouth-watering and visually delectable, it takes us into the specialty...

Based on a true story, teenage, Muslim refugee girls in burkinis take a fantastical swimming lesson in Idaho. The initiative for swimming lessons...

A young Caribbean immigrant mother struggling to make ends meet at her dye factory job finds a release through her abandoned dream of dance.

Raul finally gets the courage to ask his co-worker, Rosa out on a date. When the day arrives, Raul is confronted by ICE officers and arrested for...

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...