If for filmmaker Valentina Signorelli becoming a naturalized British citizen was not difficult, for three other migrant…
Have you ever thought about how you got here? We really are what our parents did for us. In this film, a son and father…
Canada-based Iranian director Farhad Pakdel films four Iranian families in this country as they reminisce about the spa…
Funny, musical, lighthearted. This historical documentary tells the incredible story of how a small port town in Spain …
Using videos that have gone viral on social networks about the conflicts in their countries of origin, migrants based i…
Having escaped from Africa to Europe after being harshly harassed for her homosexuality, Pepsi tells us what it has bee…
Funny and absurd, yet profoundly realistic. This documentary follows a group of Middle Eastern immigrants as they try t…
After leaving behind a war-torn Belgrade, three Serbian artists navigate a new life in New York. This is their story of…
This short film is the endearing portrait of Roed Roza, a South American migrant in Milan, Italy. Stripped of his land …
Calais is not only a prominent port city in France, but also the crossroads for many migrants trying to reach England. …
A group of North Korean refugee women living in South Korea have an essential ritual since they left their home in sear…
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
In a country historically closed to immigration, a group of asylum seekers show themselves only through their hands and…
On the dangerous route that Central American migrants take to the United States, a Catholic missionary welcomes travele…
This experimental short film uses found footage of trips in Europe during the 70s to make a powerful and fleeting essay…
With only a single shot of a sunset over the Aegean Sea, this short film makes a philosophical provocation on the Europ…
By observing a group of Kazakh migrants working in a remote rural village in Russia, we learn about their harsh story o…
A trip to a big city means for Lee and Jia to leave behind the old red house where they have lived for the last few yea…
Having fled his country's civil war in his childhood, filmmaker Jude Ratman returns to Siri Lanka to confront the trace…
With the texture of videotapes from the early 1990s, a Turkish filmmaker in exile makes a personal essay on the consequ…
The Greek island of Lesvos is today a bridge to the European dream for thousands of Asian and African migrants. Through…
In a remote mountainous region of China, Hou Junli and his family remain in a small village that has seen so many leave…
In the best style of the Cine-Verité school, filmmaker Dmitry Kabakov portrays a humble village near Moscow, where Russ…
This independently filmed short film is a glance at the Chinese community in Brazil, with all its nuances, stereotypes …
Three filmmakers from Indonesia, South Korea and Serbia exchange video letters. The correspondance is full of faces and…
Through a poignant observational approach, this documentary dissects the dynamics of the safari tourism business in Sou…
Made as a thematic triptych (Hope, Faith and Love) this documentary follows eight single men who embark on a long journ…
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…
Two actors in Kosovo dream of a visa to be able to emigrate and have a better future. But without a visa, they both dec…
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 …
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