Immigration Movies

In a closed apartment, sealed to the outside world, an aging polar bear tries unsuccessfully to communicate with his daughter.

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

Carnotstraat 17 is a feature documentary looking more closely into the effect on someone’s identity through migration.

Matsu, known as Jack, arrives by train at Spencer Street Station, heart pounding, uncertain, yet hopeful.

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

A young woman who has migrated to Istanbul tells her family that she has built a successful life, while secretly living a very different reality at...

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

Amid a mysterious outbreak affecting the newly formed Republic of the Pampas, Rosário, a Brazilian woman living in Newfoundland, embarks on an...

This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...

A short film documenting the immigrant experience. Open-borders? Policing? Naturalizing? Etc.

Exploring the conflicts that inhabit individuals who experience immigration, Nana is a film about origins.

Puente de la Costa Sur, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2004 Community Leadership Awards (John R. May Award) - for its creative, grassroots...

Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have...

An uplifting story of an immigrant and her sixteen-year-old American car, and the experiences they share. A story of perseverance, loyalty and the...

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...

Captured during his francisation courses in Montreal, Adad Hannah constructs a playful video portrait of the different people and backgrounds that...

A short documentary that follows Korean grandparents as they share their modern-day reckoning of their immigration story and grandparenthood.