Migration Movies

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

When Ader Ismail fled from Somalia to Sweden, she thought it would not take long for her five children to join her. But the years go by and the...

Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in Lübeck. As they work, they share stories...

Five Afghan men try to reach Europe. The filmmakers followed them for over six months, filming their clandestine journey and chronicling a migration...

Sebastián is from Venezuela and arrives at a shelter for migrant minors in Mexico City. There he meets Aurora, a girl from Guatemala, with...

Dublin, June 2024: thousands of men seeking asylum in Ireland are homeless. Olivia and her group of volunteers are trying to find safe locations...

For 55 years Sani has coached boys from the poorest areas of Kumasi, Ghana, combining football, study and discipline so they can build a future....

Enrico Naso is an undertaker in Lampedusa. Constantly confronted with the death that lurks everywhere on this remote rock in the middle of the...

A dutch film maker, married to a Nicaraguan, sets himself a goal of finding out what kind of people is risking life trying to emigrate over the...

Parallel City

The film explores the reasons for emigrating from Italy and describes the feeling of being a stranger in one's own country after many years in...

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...

What happens to families in the absence of sons? What happens to land in the absence of farmers? What happens to villages in the absence of men? Sent...

A surgery to finally fit in a literally new world bears a heavy risk, pushing an alien immigrant to make last-minute precautionary measures on the...

Three Venezuelan women cross the border into Colombia to buy a packet of pasta.

Chilean migrants arriving in Bahía Blanca from the 1960s brought their Pentecostal faith across the Andes. Built on testimonies, hymns and...