Migration Movies

A Lebanese migrant in The Netherlands receives a haunting voice message from his former best friend in Beirut.

Samir, a young student from Hamburg, lives with his best friend in a shared apartment and is in a happy relationship. Everything seems...

On 28 October 2015, a migrant boat left the coast of Western Turkey heading to the closest European coast – the Greek island of Lesvos. The...

On the Wings of Hope depicts the 4 years of struggle for survival of 5 immigrants, one of them is a child, after the boat they were on sank while...

This intimate letter from a migrant grandson about his Italian grandmother, also a migrant, unites in a trip to Italy the portrait of Venezuelan...

X-Mission explores the logic of the refugee camp as one of the oldest extra-territorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camp as a case in...

Sebastián is from Venezuela and arrives at a shelter for migrant minors in Mexico City. There he meets Aurora, a girl from Guatemala, with...

Ilya learned street-smarts in the harsh realities of Russia's Far North, book-smarts in literature class, and the strength of the fist from a father...

"Childhoods without Borders: Voices in Motion" is a documentary in which migrant boys and girls narrate the experiences and challenges they have...

Director Miriam Pucitta grew up as the child of Italian migrant workers in Switzerland in the 1960s and 1970s. She herself has only fragmentary...

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are...

Somewhere between documentary and fiction, this is an essay on questions of territory and human displacements made during an excursion from southern...

A long time ago, Ana Laura, Gustavo, and Jesús crossed the border in search of a better opportunity. They worked hard, built a family, and...

Nabil has to deal with his fear of water caused by a trauma he had, which he tries, day after day, to fight.

In an early work, video artist Dara Birnbaum records a cross section of fellow passengers aboard the Staten Island Ferry while en route to the Statue...

Between 1931 to 2002, Switzerland issued some six million seasonal residence permits, known as "A" permits, to immigrant workers. This status carried...

For years, together with his partners from the production company O Quadro, he has been betting on cinema as a tool to explore the typical issues of...

The Zuquillos are four women who have worked for several years in a popular grocery market in the city of Quito, a place where they have cultivated a...