Migration Movies

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

In rural Kosovo, identical houses are built for family members working abroad, in the hope that they will one day return to settle in their old...

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...

In search of a better life, Luzia leaves the Northeast of Brazil and goes to Rio de Janeiro, looking for her fiance who went first to pave their way....

Vengo Volviendo tells the story of Ismael, who was raised by his grandmother and seeks to leave Ecuador in order to migrate to the United States....

On the anniversary of his sister's death during a protest against a corrupt police unit in Nigeria, an immigrant now living in London, battles...

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

This documentary traces the history of U.S. relations with Latin America and draws strong links to America's current immigration crisis. Decaying...

Stephen Tan, the youngest and the only photographer in his family, is tasked with creating his grandmother's funeral portrait. Never having taken his...

"Our Family" is a film about the time that we can't get back. I left my home along with my friends and family behind in 2017, when I was aged 15 to...

This video research is based on a trip to Morocco in July 2005, during which the director documented irregular migration transiting through Morocco,...

This animated short, based on the book by Rachna Gilmore, is the story of Gita, an 8-year-old girl who can't wait to celebrate Divali - the Hindu...

Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable...

Over the course of thirteen years, the filmmaker and protagonist shares the experience of his binational family, taking us to his wife's country....

Released from prison and terminally ill, Parvis Karimpour is determined to be reunited with his daughter, Nasrin, who fled Iran for Europe many years...

News explodes like a bomb! Due to the genetic mutation, immigrants living in Italy undergo a noticeable change. Is this wonderful country in danger...

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...

As ​Yiling, a Chinese marine biologist living overseas, travels to Newfoundland, Canada, to study a repeatedly stranded humpback whale, the...

Forced into a legal “Limbo” status in the U.S. Paola finds herself through the day navigating a chaos she’s unable to control.