Immigrant Experience Movies

  • 2012
    Stone Street

    Stone Street

    Stone Street

    02012HD

    Stone Street documents the life and experiences of a Trinidadian diaspora family and their enduring connection to the long standing family home in...

    Stone Street
  • 1988
    Ni de aquí, ni de allá

    Ni de aquí, ni de allá

    Ni de aquí, ni de allá

    7.71988HD

    This Mexican comedy stars La India Maria, who drives the FBI crazy because they cannot figure out whether she belongs here or there.

    Ni de aquí, ni de allá
  • 1999
    Torino Boys

    Torino Boys

    Torino Boys

    3.51999HD

    A group of young Nigerian friends living in Italy travels to Rome to watch a UEFA soccer match. For Eby this is the opportunity to see Nike, a girl...

    Torino Boys
  • 1970
    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    01970HD

    Chinese for Affirmative Action is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Award for being "a champion against discrimination and for...

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012
  • 1957
    China Wife

    China Wife

    China Wife

    01957HD

    Ah-gau (Keung Chung-ping) leaves his wife Sou Jing, and son in Macau for Nanyang to join his cousin (Patrick Tse Yin) in search of employment. A...

    China Wife
  • 2014
    The Bohulano Family

    The Bohulano Family

    The Bohulano Family

    02014HD

    Home movie collection of the Bohulano Family of Stockton, CA. Footage dates between the 1950s-1970s.

    The Bohulano Family
  • 1969
    The 80 Goes to Sparta

    The 80 Goes to Sparta

    The 80 Goes to Sparta

    01969HD

    This feature documentary studies the different faces of Montreal’s Greek community in 1969. Instead of giving voice to the businessmen and...

    The 80 Goes to Sparta
  • 2023
    The Stream

    The Stream

    The Stream

    02023HD

    When a first generation American son learns of his Russian immigrant father's financial catastrophe, he reluctantly agrees to one last tumultuous...

    The Stream
  • 2020
    Undocumented in the Pandemic

    Undocumented in the Pandemic

    Undocumented in the Pandemic

    02020HD

    With The Marshall Project and the Pulitzer Center, a look at one immigrant mother’s struggle to keep her children safe and housed, with her...

    Undocumented in the Pandemic
  • 2020
    Con Esperanza

    Con Esperanza

    Con Esperanza

    02020HD

    When Ruben, a young Chicano musician, is caught between his mother’s expectations and his own hopes, he is forced to make a decision that will...

    Con Esperanza
  • 1970
    Transplant

    Transplant

    Transplant

    01970HD

    What does it feel like to be a stranger in a country that you’ve lived in for twenty years? Two rootless and tenacious Chinese immigrants, Quan...

    Transplant
  • 2020
    Far from Bashar

    Far from Bashar

    Far from Bashar

    02020HD

    A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced portrayal of a courageous family coping with a...

    Far from Bashar
  • 1984
    Becoming American

    Becoming American

    Becoming American

    01984HD

    Hang Sou and his family, preliterate tribal farmers, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing their war-consumed native Laos....

    Becoming American
  • 1992
    Return Home

    Return Home

    Return Home

    01992HD

    After the near death of her grandfather, Chinese Canadian filmmaker Michelle Wong embarks on a personal journey back home to her small town of St....

    Return Home