Migration Movies

Lori, a Syrian-Armenian girl living in Armenia, believes her father is taking her on a summer trip. When she learns that her family is really leaving...

Living in downtown Toronto to attend school, Lina Li returns to the comfort of home in Thornhill and her mother's cooking. In this candid short,...

Partitions draws on photographs, state documents, audio recordings and footage of domestic spaces and routines, to tell a story of Sindhi migration...

Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they had to escape from the Nazis to Palestine with...

A humorous observation in Barcelona’s immigrant neighbourhood El Raval. Four barber shops, four places of remembrance, strange time and space...

Struggling with the move to Australia, a father concedes that he might not be the only one having a hard time with the transition.

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...

X-Mission explores the logic of the refugee camp as one of the oldest extra-territorial zones. Taking the Palestinian refugee camp as a case in...

Afghani refugee Ali and his brother have just arrived in Turkey where, surrounded by many other refugees, his family tries to build a new life. The...

A silent documentary which follows a branch of the Bakhtiari tribe of Persia as they and their herds make their epic seasonal journey to better...

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

Brair Kani explores an ancestral house located in Srinagar, Kashmir. Using the attic as a site of reflection, the film navigates the relationship...

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....

After the world premiere in Luxembourg, the first film by the Portuguese descendant Philippe Machado arrives in his native country through Filmin. A...

On a night of reckoning, an immigrant teen confronts her mother’s fury—and finds a mirror of her own fragility

The parallel stories of four Pakistani immigrants in Greece become the trigger for the director to explore the story of his father, a worker in the...

A doctor examines a migrant's body recovered from the sea. During inspection, she finds a plastic bag with a suspicious substance that magically...

A family tribe of Cro-Magnons faces hardships, such as hunger, animal attacks, Neanderthal attacks, and death from injuries as they migrate to find a...

Each year over 1.2 million wildebeest travel across the vast Serengeti plains and Kenya's Masai Mara on a 1,800 kilometer circular journey,...

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