Immigration Movies

The Black Audio Film Collective’s acclaimed essay film, 'Handsworth Songs', examines the 1985 race riots in Handsworth and London. Interweaving...

Bachir, twenty-five, is looking to leave, perhaps to France. He waits every morning for the postman to come. The visa response is slow in coming....

As a talented Turkish swimmer grapples with her mother's terminal illness back home, she navigates the pressures of maintaining her scholarship in...

This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the...

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named Johnny. Though Walt has little in common with the...

This is the story of an ordinary man transformed by history. A simple baker from Besançon who became a political symbol of resistance. That of...

Marie, in her forties, lives in the Hautes-Alpes, cut off from her relatives. She only has her lover, Alex, a border policeman. Thanks to him, she...

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of prison, Gabriel wants to turn his back on crime,...

Malika was supposed to meet her biological mother that day, but she prefers to follow Mimoun, an old Algerian man struggling to come to terms with...

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominican neighbour Zulema, an illegal immigrant, after...

An undocumented immigrant explores his and his family's immigration trauma while grasping hope through a voicemail.

Sara and Adam, and their two-year-old daughter, arrive in Belgium illegally, hoping to finally make their way on to England. Crammed together with...

Leila, a 28 year old Syrian American woman, anxiously awaits the outcome of her mother’s immigration interview in a hotel room that is meant to...

HOMME-RELAIS spotlights Juan Manuel, a doctor turned community leader who, amid migration grief and integration challenges, guides immigrant men...

After being captured by a self-proclaimed border guard, a Mexican boy tries to cook his way to freedom.

In New York City, an illegal immigrant gets into trouble because of his relationship with a self-destructive prostitute.

From PBS: Arizona's enforcement-led policy, which grew out of its unique position as a frontline border state, is reshaping the national conversation...

Aïssa is a Congolese immigrant in France. She says that she is under eighteen but the authorities consider her an adult. To determine if she can...