Migration Movies

A portrait of a queer HIV+ Iranian refugee in Quito.

On the night before Ashley’s flight, Ian drives her home, and they avoid the heavy roads of conflict and confrontation—stalling for time...

Young people who decide to leave their home to seek opportunities for the future face different difficulties on a daily basis. The inevitable...

Thirst overcomes the hordes of Wildebeest and Zebra moving through Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve on their spectacular annual migration. With the...

As ​Yiling, a Chinese marine biologist living overseas, travels to Newfoundland, Canada, to study a repeatedly stranded humpback whale, the...

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...

Over the course of thirteen years, the filmmaker and protagonist shares the experience of his binational family, taking us to his wife's country....

Forced into a legal “Limbo” status in the U.S. Paola finds herself through the day navigating a chaos she’s unable to control.

A Lebanese migrant in The Netherlands receives a haunting voice message from his former best friend in Beirut.

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

It’s Karla’s first birthday away from home. And music will be her way back.

Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet: Around two million wildebeest, Burchell's zebra...

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...

Released from prison and terminally ill, Parvis Karimpour is determined to be reunited with his daughter, Nasrin, who fled Iran for Europe many years...

The promise of a bigger and better life in Canada where his older brother has already settled has long inundated the dreams of Navraj, a young...

An unwanted pregnancy triggers the journey into adulthood for Makenya, a Dominican-Haitian teenager who lives in the Batey, a community surrounded...

Documentary that focus on the lives of three Ecuadorian migrants. It is a portrait of the suffering, the effort and nostalgia of the Ecuadorians who...