Movies: Immigrant

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 of her new school. Finding herself caught between the popular students and her shy classmate, Alem, Ol...

Work. Eat. Sleep. And back to work. For a long time skippers in the North East of Scotland could not find locals to work on their fishing vessels. That was until Filipino fishermen started coming to town for work. Both nationalities strive to shorten...

Melbourne filmmaker Brian McKenzie spent 5 years working on this engrossing study of a not-so-typical Brunswick household. It's a laconic, observational documentary similar to the director's I'll Be Home For Christmas (MFF '85), in which McKenzie pla...

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 Aliou tell their different stories, talk about friendship, immigration, freedom and, above all, about th...

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about their new lives yearning to see her American world through their eyes. Yelena understands that life in t...

After being jailed by the Macoutes for complaining about worker exploitation at the baseball factory where he worked, a Haitian man and his family attempts to escape to the United States. On the boat, they are forced into the ocean at gunpoint far fr...

Boiling Point (original title Kiehumispiste) describes the different reactions the Finnish people had to the large immigration amounts in 2015-2016....

A documentary about the difficulties of immigration, culture shock and the loss of social references that destabilize new arrivals. Arriving in a new country is the beginning of a difficult journey, full of trials and tribulations. An unprecedented i...

Toño and Aldo are immigrant workers, on what seems a regular day of cleaning duty Toño carries with him a heavy burden....

Santiago Domingo is a child of an immigrant who is concerned about the recent changes on immigrants. As he retells the day where he found out these news....

Based on a true story, teenage, Muslim refugee girls in burkinis take a fantastical swimming lesson in Idaho. The initiative for swimming lessons began after a newly arrived refugee, a Congolese boy, drowned in the summer of 2017. ​​...

Following the unexpected death of his fiancée the night before his wedding, Ralph's desire to ever love again is shattered. Then he meets Joanne. Will her love and her charm be enough for him to start living again; for good this time?...

A reclusive non-conforming immigrant arouses fear and suspicion within a conservative insular community....

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

A Mexican immigrant works as a dishwasher in the United States under the constant supervision of a racist boss. What will his reward be in this eternal pursuit of the American dream?...

Rosa is from Croatia and lives in Switzerland, with her husband who depends on her care. She takes care of everything. Her children have grown up and want to leave home. Rosa stays behind alone....

In a reimagining of a first-generation immigrant's experience, this short film follows the director's mother moving from Nigeria to Peckham....

Fifteen-year-old Pavle Hromiš, obeying the will of his parents, leaves Germany and goes to live in Yugoslavia with his grandmother. He has problems with the language and the different curriculum. The only place where he feels fine is the aeronautic c...

Wheels of Fate is a short documentary film about identity, belonging and acceptance. It reflects on Ryan Espadilla's experience immigrating to New Zealand. This film features the euphoria and sanctuary of inline skating as Ryan reveals inner struggle...

This new documentary tells the incredible life story of an internationally renowned artist who goes to the frontline to tell the real story of the world. Irish painter and social activist Brian Maguire has been catapulted to the forefront of the inte...