Migration Movies

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...

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

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are...

Two countries, two restaurants, one vision. At Gabriela Cámara's acclaimed Contramar in Mexico City, the welcoming, uniformed waiters are as...

Before the eyes of the Sudanese Ahmed (25), the war broke out in full force. He decides to flee on foot to the Netherlands alone, to be able to live...

Deraldo, a popular poet from Northeast Brazil, arrives in the capital of São Paulo, making a living only from his poetry and pamphlets. All is...

Having fled Albania over 30 years ago, Agim and Erjon have led different lives. Their father's last wish brings them back. There they have to...

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...

Charming amateur film featuring the Eisner family, who emigrated to Britain from Romania the year this film was made.

In rural Kosovo, identical houses are built for family members working abroad, in the hope that they will one day return to settle in their old...

This animated short, based on the book by Rachna Gilmore, is the story of Gita, an 8-year-old girl who can't wait to celebrate Divali - the Hindu...

Sira, a former refugee, works as a translator for OFPRA (the French Office for the Protection of Stateless Persons and Migrants). She unscrupulously...

A man encounters colorful characters while driving a taxi in Papua New Guinea.

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

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

Switzerland still carries out special flights, where passengers, dressed in diapers and helmets, are chained to their seats for 40 hours at worst....

'Iragan gunea Berlin' follows five people from different origins as they move anonymously around the streets of Berlin. Each of them with another...

This video research is based on a trip to Morocco in July 2005, during which the director documented irregular migration transiting through Morocco,...