Migration Movies

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...

A refugee's dinner routine is transformed when she begins to hear the voices of those she has lost. Based on a short story by Syrian writer Jehan...

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

Through first person narration, Tari reveals personal stories related to her decision to work in Taiwan, her strained family relationships, the risks...

The imprint of the past is made present by the return of three migrants to a community in the upper Mixteca region of Oaxaca, where the three stories...

People who have to leave where they live, let their photo taken for the last time in front of a backdrop. The photographer gives the photographs to...

For years, the immigration officer Dr. Ludwig Sarheimer and the chairman of the Turkish community Cengiz Demirkan in Cologne have been fighting a...

Documentary about a "transportation commando" in Germany with the goal to deport 200 people to Albania...

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

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

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...

Just married Hong Kong couple Chen & Lily emigrate to England, soon to become parents to a little baby boy and generally struggle through life. Chen...

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...

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the...

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...

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 former war photographer tries to ward off his personal ghosts by taking pictures of trees only. He lives alone among olive trees in southern Italy....

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...