Emigration Movies

A film about people who are leaving Serbia for economic reasons.

I followed the everyday lives of Ali, Kais, Ertan and Alban with my camera for over two years. The time was characterized by disappointments,...

Documentary about Swedish emigration to Argentina via Brazil.

"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany....

Field of Vision and The New Yorker have created a six-part episodic documentary, filmed in 2015, that immerses us in the Syrian refugee crisis....

With the spectre of COVID-19 looming, the old ways of waking and burying the dead are fractured and desolate in this curious tale of two bachelor...

Moving between the playful and the contemplative, explores the meaning of identity and home across three generations of an Iraqi family in Texas.

A man from communist Czechoslovakia unexpectedly meets his childhood love on a flight to Cuba. When they stop over in Canada, he has a plan…...

Ilyas and Brahim work at a television repair shop. When the end of the day arrives, his boss sends them to bring a television to a costumer on the...

A short, cautionary tale of emigrating to America.

Adnan, a 16-year-old Syrian who has lived in France with his family for two years, is trying to come to term with his mysterious past.

The film is a travelogue of sorts. Ostrovsky’s personal family footage meets the archives of Soviet propaganda footage. The result is a kind of...

This documentary follows the lives of four elderly Japanese men living in Manila's impoverished districts. Known as "distressed Japanese," they...

A wanted thief buries his wife and takes his disabled son to an orphanage. He wants to escape the law in another country, but he can't run from his...

Dao (22) is a young Thai woman. She arrives in the Netherlands to share the rest of her life with a dutch called Michel. The confrontation with a man...

The tragedy of the Syrian people: War, conflict, loss, migration, exile, asylum, detention, drowning… A deserted place. Abandoned people....

Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrifice, as her father emigrated to Brazil. With a...

45,000 sections of reinforced concrete - three tons each.
 Nearly 300 watchtowers., over 250 dog runs, twenty bunkers.
 Sixty-five​...