Immigrant Movies

This is the story of Wojtek - a magnificent 500lb military bear who fought in World War Two alongside a band of Polish soldiers, shared their beer...

On her journey to the United States, Marya Nisko falls in love with another immigrant, Sascha Rabinoff. Arriving and discovering her sister's...

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

The story of the Czech immigrant experience in Chicago, past and present. Spanning nearly two centuries of turbulent times, it shows how the...

Bangladeshi not only come to Malaysia as a worker, they also come as a werewolf too. How can Malaysian defeat them? 20 years ago, a Bangladeshi...

Born to Korean immigrant parents freed from indentured servitude in early twentieth century Mexico, Jerónimo Lim Kim joins the Cuban...

Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America is an award-winning 2016 documentary about Moises Serrano, who grew up queer and undocumented in...

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

A documentary exploring the experiences and attitudes of Indian and Pakistani taxi drivers in New York City while also questioning the filmmaker's...

Documentary that shows the changing attitude towards immigrant labor in The Netherlands. The documentary follows three immigrants that arrived in...

30 years after their emigration, Danni interviews his family and tries to learn their story to reconcile with the past.

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

In 1983, Chinese-American teen Marlene Lee attends an all-white, all girls summer camp. In order to fit in and impress her new friend Charlene,...

An immigrant worker from Bosnia falls in love with the actress Nastassia Kinski. To be able to approach her, he has to become famous himself. That's...

Olivia (12), just moved with her family from New York and arrives for her first day of school. She struggles to find her place within the hierarchy...

A personal account of the COVID-19 pandemic in America and its effects on an immigrant family as seen through the eyes of a student quarantined at...

ICE conducted the largest immigration raids in US history at slaughterhouses in 2019, arresting and deporting undocumented workers. Despite the...

In a mesmerizing confessional built from home video and animation, Karla Cornejo Villavicencio explores the mental prisons and personal trauma...