Documentary Films

Genres

Migration Documentaries
10

The Defector: Escape from North Korea

This documentary follows Dragon, who makes a living smuggling people fleeing North Korea through the border with China.…
8

Atelier de conversation

The filmmaker Bernhard Braunstein shoots a group of French students in a conversation practice. A reflection on languag…
8

Here And Yonder

Through a cinema workshop, a group of students from an Armenian school in Argentina use film resources to reconstruct a…
7

The Most Beautiful Country In The World

In Vienna, a group of immigrants from the Middle East try to integrate into the Austrian society in the midst of the ho…
10

Broken Land

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

Argentinian Lesson

8-years-old Janek has just moved from Poland to the Argentine countryside with his family. Here he meets Marcia, his in…
9

What The Wind Took Away

This documentary follows Hedil and Naam, two Yazidi women who try to give their families a decent life in a refugee cam…
8

Mekong - Parana, The Last Laotians

This documentary makes a portrait of the Ithanvong family and their epic journey from war-torn Laos to a town in Santa …
9

In the Claws of a Century Wanting

In the everyday of four small homes, this documentary traces imprints of the larger world as four families of Filipino …
9

Li Ké Terra

Miguel and Rubén, two Cape Verdean immigrant descendants living in Portugal, find themselves in limbo. They both have d…
8.7

Bye, Darling

Marcos, a young Brazilian living in Argentina, faces a dilemma in his family's WhatsApp group that involves the impeach…
7.5

Arrival

This animated short documentary illustrates in less than two minutes the arrival of an Iranian refuge in Germany, his n…