Immigrant Movies

  • 2012
    Polaris

    Polaris

    Polaris

    02012HD

    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....

    Polaris
  • 1970
    Cleaners

    Cleaners

    Cleaners

    01970HD

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

    Cleaners
  • 2022
    Purple Bells

    Purple Bells

    Purple Bells

    102022HD

    30 years after their emigration, Danni interviews his family and tries to learn their story to reconcile with the past.

    Purple Bells
  • 2017
    Like a Fish out of the Water

    Like a Fish out of the Water

    Like a Fish out of the Water

    52017HD

    Woojin, a 25-year-old Korean student tries to adjust to a new city where he doesn’t speak the language. Confusion, despair and bad breath makes...

    Like a Fish out of the Water
  • 2012
    Carmen G

    Carmen G

    Carmen G

    72012HD

    Carmen lives in the world of dreams. Her biggest dream dreams is to find her lost son. An unavoidable fate and cruel people present themselves as...

    Carmen G
  • 2022
    Liquor Store Dreams

    Liquor Store Dreams

    Liquor Store Dreams

    02022HD

    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...

    Liquor Store Dreams
  • 2004
    Elixir

    Elixir

    Elixir

    5.52004HD

    Four young boys with immigrant backgrounds stumble upon the recipe for Elixir, a drink that will make them more Swedish, both culturally and in...

    Elixir
  • 1984
    Nice

    Nice

    Nice

    7.41984HD

    A naïve and "nice" West Indian's descent into postcolonial cynicism is depicted in a twenty minute monologue from writer Farrukh Dhondy.

    Nice
  • 2022
    A Heart On The Mend

    A Heart On The Mend

    A Heart On The Mend

    02022HD

    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
  • 1977
    Hold the Ketchup

    Hold the Ketchup

    Hold the Ketchup

    01977HD

    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
  • 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

    02015HD

    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
  • 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

    02013HD

    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
  • 2024
    Con El Sudor De Tu Frente

    Con El Sudor De Tu Frente

    Con El Sudor De Tu Frente

    02024HD

    When Dolores, an undocumented immigrant who lives alone, discovers $3 million in cash, her life takes a sudden and unexpected turn.

    Con El Sudor De Tu Frente
  • 2016
    A Father's Will

    A Father's Will

    A Father's Will

    02016HD

    After living as an immigrant in the USA for 15 years, Azat flies to Kyrgyzstan to his family village. His father, Murat, died in the USA a year ago....

    A Father's Will
  • 1992
    Return Home

    Return Home

    Return Home

    01992HD

    After the near death of her grandfather, Chinese Canadian filmmaker Michelle Wong embarks on a personal journey back home to her small town of St....

    Return Home
  • 2018
    June

    June

    June

    02018HD

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

    June
  • 2022
    Smiling Jockey

    Smiling Jockey

    Smiling Jockey

    02022HD

    The challenging daily routine of Ceará-born jockey Antonio Davielson and his family living in a foreign country on the other side of the...

    Smiling Jockey
  • 2013
    Dreaming of Democracy

    Dreaming of Democracy

    Dreaming of Democracy

    62013HD

    A desperate journey in the heart of Thessaloniki. Seven Iranians, each one for his personal reasons, leave their homeland and embark on a life...

    Dreaming of Democracy
  • 2022
    Bad Honey

    Bad Honey

    Bad Honey

    02022HD

    At the beginning of the 20th century, a German household attempts to stay isolated from their new surroundings, in the south of Brazil. Their fear,...

    Bad Honey
  • 2022
    Tuī Ná

    Tuī Ná

    Tuī Ná

    02022HD

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

    Tuī Ná