American Dream Movies

An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polarization and distrust through past the past and...

We accompanied an 8 months pregnant Yuri, who migrates with her partner Mike and her son Santi with one objective, to give birth in USA

Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell pushes...

A coming of age drama set in Texas, about a suburban teen boy, estranged from his family, who enlists the help of his dysfunctional friends to become...

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy...

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

In 1980s Brooklyn, a resilient family, evicted from public housing, refuses to succumb to homelessness or welfare. Instead, they construct their own...

It’s 3 AM, the neon is buzzing, and nobody's where they thought they’d be. In the restless late hours of Miami, nine characters stumble...

A celebrity petroleum engineer discovers a rundown property in Park City.

What chance does a young hustler from Anchorage, Alaska have after a long prison sentence that feeds him back to the same violent street life?

In Texas, construction workers face the deadliest conditions in the country. This documentary follows three immigrant families who are rising up to...

Why don't we do something to ease the suffering of the poor, the excluded? Because we live in fear of "the other," the stranger. Filmed a few months...

Iconic imageries and moments of strange magic in California.

In America, everyone has a family story of immigration. Every family, at some point, has had somebody leave their native country behind to search for...

All Denny wants to do is get by like everybody else, but there always seems to be something in the way.

A journey into time, landscape and consciousness: The Southwestern United States in the black-and-white moving images and unsettling instrumental...

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

So Yun Um’s debut feature is a moving portrait of two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconciling their dreams with those of...

This short experimental film follows two energetic college students over a day around various locations in three boroughs of New York City.