Seen from the point of view of a 3-year-old girl, this documentary follows the tortuous migration journey of a refugee …
Chinese descendants in Serbia may go unnoticed in a rural farm, small retail stores or as employees in a mall. Will the…
Lludy, a Brazilian immigrant, has just lost his flat in Barcelona and has nowhere to go. Through her belongings we disc…
This gem from the Rotterdam Film Festival is a chronicle-essay ... or rather a kind of diary, as philosophical as it is…
Filmed over two years, this documentary follows the vessel of the NGO "Mission Lifeline" in the Mediterranean on its mi…
Filmed in Sweden, Germany and Canada, this documentary gives a voice to immigrants of Indian, Turkish and Kurdish origi…
By closely following Central American migrants on their perilous journey to the US-Mexico border, this bold documentary…
In this emotional and sensory journey, we accompany filmmaker Khoa Lê to Vietnam. Here he reunites with his roots amid …
The inhabitants of Montserrat, a small Caribbean island, are trying to regain the life they had before the eruption of …
The last part of the Barrientos trilogy focuses on the love story of Naty and Daniel Barrientos, the pillars of a humbl…
This film mixes images from the diverse lives of Iranians in the United States that make up a nation in Exile.
Award-winning filmmaker Irene Gutierrez intersects a personal journey back to her native Spanish town, on the border wi…
The story of an elderly refugee torn between the past, the insecure present and the bleak future. He struggles to decid…
This documentary follows two young men in Mali who dream of becoming professional soccer players to be able to go to Eu…
Through the small details in the memories of a Syrian refugee in Berlin, this short film makes the exercise of illustra…
This documentary follows Dragon, who makes a living smuggling people fleeing North Korea through the border with China.…
The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
Through a cinema workshop, a group of students from an Armenian school in Argentina use film resources to reconstruct a…
In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
Right next to the wall that is built to prevent migration to the U.S. those who live on the border with Mexico tell us …
8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
In the everyday of four small homes, this documentary traces imprints of the larger world as four families of Filipino …
Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…
Based in Brussels, filmmaker Sanaz Azari begins to study Farsi with a children's book that dates back from the Islamic …
After living for several years in the United States, a group of men are deported and forced to return to the Azores, th…
Through testimonies and archive footage, this film tells the story of people from Borgo who escaped fascist Italy in se…
Filmed with infrared cameras, this short film documents a group of refugees planning to cross to Great Britain through …
This life-inspiring documentary follows four children who live in Zaatari, a small city of refugees, who dream of a bet…
Through powerful black and white photographs and a poetic voice that tells the drama, the filmmaker Mathieu Volpe docum…
Carlos used to live in the world's most dangerous city in Honduras. He fled gang violence and now lives with his grandm…
Zena and Raad escaped from Aleppo, the epicenter of the war in Syria, and now live in Germany with their little daughte…
This short film is an endearing portrait of Peter Nhiany, who was forced to flee Sudan during a bloody civil war and no…
Through the Whatsapp voice notes that she exchanges with her grandmother, a Venezuelan filmmaker living in Barcelona in…
Through an almost theatrical approach, this short film reconstructs postcards observed in the commercially vibrant bord…
Through this intimate documentary, the filmmaker Chaghig Arzoumanian returns to her Armenian origins. Her grandparents'…
Through the life story of his grandmother, a filmmaker explores his roots in Algeria while portraying the universe of t…
This short film illustrates the life of Tim, a young French son of an absent Iraqi father and a Jewish mother, who is i…
In an industrial community of New York, immigrant small business owners band together to fight a development plant that…
Guided by the reflections of José Mujica, known as the world’s most austere president, three stories in three different…
A woman of Turkish roots travels from Brussels to Turkey and Armenia in an intimate search for his identity.
This observational documentary captures the conversations, confidences and emotionally charged moments of migrants in c…
Two undertakers must travel from north to south of Italy in their hearse to repatriate the dead body of a Calabrian emi…
A former member of the Uruguayan urban guerrilla returns to his country of origin after more than thirty years in exile…
Dragan Wende conquered the night scene of a divided Berlin during the Cold War. 25 years later later, the directors of …
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