Immigrant Movies

  • 2013
    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World

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    A social justice organization based in Oakland-Asian Immigrant Women Advocates-focused on building the collective leadership of limited-English...

    Becoming Ourselves: How Immigrant Women Transformed Their World
  • 1977
    Hold the Ketchup

    Hold the Ketchup

    Hold the Ketchup

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    This short documentary is about newcomers to Canada and what they eat. Funny, mouth-watering and visually delectable, it takes us into the specialty...

    Hold the Ketchup
  • 2018
    Generation One

    Generation One

    Generation One

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    Generation One is a short documentary that explores the perspectives of the American-born children of Arab Muslim immigrants as they navigate their...

    Generation One
  • 2008
    Brazillians Like Me

    Brazillians Like Me

    Brazillians Like Me

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    The encounter with a growing, and mostly undocumented, brazilian community allows us to bear witness to its energy, its vivacity, and its diversity....

    Brazillians Like Me
  • 2022
    Nidhal

    Nidhal

    Nidhal

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    Between reality and animation, the story of Nidhal is told, a young homosexual Tunisian who defended individual freedoms in Tunisia through his work...

    Nidhal
  • 2019
    Amara

    Amara

    Amara

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    From Colorado, where he has chosen to live, Fouad Mennana begins to trace his late grandfather - Amara Mennana - an Algerian farmer expropriated from...

    Amara
  • 2021
    My Body

    My Body

    My Body

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    Oscar, not quite a child anymore, scavenges for scrap metal for his father. He spends his life in improvised landfills among what remains of...

    My Body
  • 2013
    The Adventure

    The Adventure

    The Adventure

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    In 2011, as tens of thousands of migrants, Loss, and Madess Moussa arrived in Europe via Turkey. Required by EU law to remain in Greece, they only...

    The Adventure
  • 2022
    A Heart On The Mend

    A Heart On The Mend

    A Heart On The Mend

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    Following the unexpected death of his fiancée the night before his wedding, Ralph's desire to ever love again is shattered. Then he meets...

    A Heart On The Mend
  • 1957
    Arrival

    Arrival

    Arrival

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    This drama portrays an immigrant family and the mingled feelings of hope and despair that characterize their life in a strange land. An Italian wife...

    Arrival
  • 2019
    Land of My Children

    Land of My Children

    Land of My Children

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    Darío Aguirre moved from Ecuador to Germany to be with Stephanie, but from the very first day there was a third party in their...

    Land of My Children
  • 2015
    Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory

    Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory

    Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory

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    In 1975, a seven-months pregnant Vietnamese refugee, Giap, escapes Saigon in a boat and, within weeks, finds herself working on an assembly line in...

    Giap's Last Day At The Ironing Board Factory
  • 1962
    Strangers for the Day

    Strangers for the Day

    Strangers for the Day

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    This short documentary shows the reactions of European immigrants as they land in Halifax at the beginning of the 1960s. From the port, we follow...

    Strangers for the Day
  • 2016
    Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America

    Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America

    Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America

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

    Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America
  • 2009
    Immersion (short)

    Immersion (short)

    Immersion (short)

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    Ten-year-old Moises has just immigrated to California from Mexico. He doesn't speak English, but he's good at math, so he hopes to do well on his...

    Immersion (short)
  • 2014
    Evaporating Borders

    Evaporating Borders

    Evaporating Borders

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    Evaporating Borders is a poetically photographed and rendered film on tolerance and search for identity. Told through 5 vignettes portraying the...

    Evaporating Borders
  • 2002
    Ghetto-Kids

    Ghetto-Kids

    Ghetto-Kids

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    Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in the center of this German made for TV movie. The...

    Ghetto-Kids
  • 2023
    Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert

    Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert

    Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert

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    The Boston Pops performs Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert, prepared by the original creators Terrence McNally, Lynn Ahrens, and Stephen Flaherty...

    Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert
  • 2006
    Paper Dolls

    Paper Dolls

    Paper Dolls

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    Paper Dolls follows the lives of transgender migrant workers from the Philippines who work as health care providers for elderly Orthodox Jewish men...

    Paper Dolls
  • 1970
    Destroy me, please

    Destroy me, please

    Destroy me, please

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

    Destroy me, please