Migration Movies

As ​Yiling, a Chinese marine biologist living overseas, travels to Newfoundland, Canada, to study a repeatedly stranded humpback whale, the...

2015, the year of the so-called “refugee crisis”: Hundreds of thousands of people sought refuge in Germany from war and persecution. Once...

A Lebanese migrant in The Netherlands receives a haunting voice message from his former best friend in Beirut.

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

Ready for a new life abroad, a woman's last trip home forces her to confront the crushing guilt of a past tragedy.

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded...

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...

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

The film follows five people from different origins as they move anonymously around the streets of Berlin. Each of them with another life somewhere...

Five women, members of the Sans Papiers, talk about the history and reasons for founding the organisation, as well as their most important demands,...

To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, Roque retreats into the Amazon jungle to renovate a cabin he built during happier times. He...

El Varal celebrates its patron saint. But at the end of the festivities, the ranch goes back to its empty streets, the absence of family members that...

Tahir Agha sells all his assets when his business in Maraş deteriorates. He immigrates to Istanbul with his wife Hatice, sons Selim, Murat,...

Obāchan is Japanese. She left her native archipelago in 1941 to marry one of her compatriots, 17 years older, settled in Mexico. Through...

Enrico Naso is an undertaker in Lampedusa. Constantly confronted with the death that lurks everywhere on this remote rock in the middle of the...

Imad, Nourdine, Walid and Hamza are a group of young Moroccan boys living in a cave under the lighthouse in the Spanish exclave Melilla. They wait...

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...

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...

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