Migration Movies

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

A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated from the city by a river and bounded by towering...

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

Viramundo shows the saga of the northeastern migrants that arrive in São Paulo, beginning with a train arriving and ending with a train leaving São Pa...

In an early work, video artist Dara Birnbaum records a cross section of fellow passengers aboard the Staten Island Ferry while en route to the Statue...

A long time ago, Ana Laura, Gustavo, and Jesús crossed the border in search of a better opportunity. They worked hard, built a family, and made a life...

Thousands of footprints stretch for miles across New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, capturing moments when Ice Age humans encountered now-extinct...

A man and a woman in Lagos want to escape their everyday lives, but extricating themselves is no easy task. Two stories narrated with tenderness and r...

On a ferry travelling towards Lampedusa, we find a teenager on his first day of work as a gravedigger and a boy on his first mission as a diver. They...

LEI and WONG clandestinely arrive to Ecuador, on their way to the port city of Guayaquil. From here LEI plans to continue her journey to New York, but...

Upon returning home after spending seven years living in Spain, Inés must adapt to a reality that is not what she left behind. Her family’s expectatio...

As thousands of migrants attempt to cross the French-Italian border on foot through treacherous mountain routes, the state cracks down on the local co...

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...

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building sup...

On a desolate beach, a nudist looks for a cruising encounter in the dunes. A surveillance drone interrupts the ritual and naked chaos turns into an ab...

Far-right voices have gained a majority in Germany and radical nationalist demands for so-called “remigration” have become state policy. Millions of p...

For years, together with his partners from the production company O Quadro, he has been betting on cinema as a tool to explore the typical issues of y...

Director Miriam Pucitta grew up as the child of Italian migrant workers in Switzerland in the 1960s and 1970s. She herself has only fragmentary memori...