Migration Movies

The promise of a bigger and better life in Canada where his older brother has already settled has long inundated the dreams of Navraj, a young...

Spanning 45 years, the life of the Lee family is told through home videos that reflect themes of memory formation, roles and relationships, and how...

A metaphor of the Flood in our times, The Flood is the rain of violence that washes over us. Noah´s Ark is the train that runs through Mexico...

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

A documentary film about men, women, and children fleeing northward from the existential threats in their home countries of Honduras, El Salvador,...

On Our Doorstep delves deep into an aspect of the refugee crisis that rarely reached the press. With NGOs being blocked by red tape and the absence...

At the beginning of the 60's, thousands of Portuguese turned up in France through the underground. They were fleeing misery, war and repression. Left...

Holding onto the promise of a new life beyond the border, a young man follows a smuggler through a remote and unforgiving landscape, only to...

A gay artist flees the repressive laws and war in Russia to go to Berlin, leaving his boyfriend behind. Meanwhile, life in Berlin turns out to be...

In the Open Air - Right of Exile

When Pak Tin Estate is going to be demolished, the residents will move to a new place, but how about the dead residents? Where could they go? Ho...

Five Afghan men try to reach Europe. The filmmakers followed them for over six months, filming their clandestine journey and chronicling a migration...

For over a decade, Stephanie has sacrificed her golden years to care for her husband with dementia.

Following the dealings of Mauritanian fixers ferrying migrants by sea, this film shows the human cost of irregular migration in West Africa....

The film takes place in three nations: in Switzerland, Cuba and Bosnia. In each of these three countries we accompany persons who dream of a better...

In the midst of economic prosperity, when Venezuela welcomed millions of migrants, this documentary narrates different realities of the country.

This feature-length documentary film, Extraordinary Aliens, started from a personal attempt to document a specific context—people who have...

Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by...