Immigrant Movies

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....

Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former Pakistani rock star turned immigrant, drags his heavy cart along the streets of New York. And...

Wyn arrives in Seoul searching for her missing boyfriend, Dani, and meets Rey, an Indonesian worker who helps her. As they grow close, Rey uncovers...

As the boundaries between past and present blur, an elderly Holocaust survivor with dementia struggles to distinguish memory from reality while his...

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

The internationally acclaimed director and recipient of the Erasmus Award in 2007, Péter Forgács created a documentary exploring the...

Tanya leaves Moscow with her street-wise 10-year-old son Artiom to meet her English fiancée in London. But after he fails to turn up at the...

An immigrant love story set on a street corner.

Teachings of an Issei. Advice, spirituality and challenges.

Kurt Schneider is a superficial and funloving character. Instigated by his mother he swindles his way into the legacy of a house and some money. Both...

Moving between the playful and the contemplative, explores the meaning of identity and home across three generations of an Iraqi family in Texas.

The story of Balbir Singh Gill aka Bobby, a Sikh grocery store owner who is kidnapped and tortured by four Americans who mistake him for a Muslim...

A 1957 period piece about an extended Italian immigrant family living in Toronto told through they eyes of a young boy. Also known as Goodnight,...

My Baba Bozorg was a professor of literature in Tehran, Iran. He moved to Canada in 2002 to live with his son, my father. He spends his days, at...

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

Amidst moving homes, a superstitious Indian American girl struggles to bury her pet bird in fear of it haunting her.

The unexpected arrival of a Nigerian migrant in the Belgian countryside shakes up the fragile daily life of two men living a secret relationship.

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...

An immigrant Chinese wife joins her husband in 1950s America after he graduates from the university.