Migration Movies

María Nicolasa Cruz, an illiterate young Mazahua woman, travels to Mexico City in search of a better life, only to be swept into a chain of...

An intimate meditation on exile and home, Prysia’s Garden portrays the quiet life of aging Ukrainian refugee Prysia through the detailed...

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

Two countries, two restaurants, one vision. At Gabriela Cámara's acclaimed Contramar in Mexico City, the welcoming, uniformed waiters are as...

Every day dozens of decommissioned school buses leave the United States on a southward migration that carries them to Guatemala, where they are...

A man and a woman in Lagos want to escape their everyday lives, but extricating themselves is no easy task. Two stories narrated with tenderness and...

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

After the world premiere in Luxembourg, the first film by the Portuguese descendant Philippe Machado arrives in his native country through Filmin. A...

[ÒDIO] is a polyphonic work that resonates as a choral dramaturgy: a fabric of gazes and contrasting testimonies on the spread of violence,...

Thousands of footprints stretch for miles across New Mexico’s White Sands National Park, capturing moments when Ice Age humans encountered...

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...

On the one hand, there’s the desert eating away at the land. The endless dry season, the lack of water. On the other there’s the threat...

A former war photographer tries to ward off his personal ghosts by taking pictures of trees only. He lives alone among olive trees in southern Italy....

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

For years, together with his partners from the production company O Quadro, he has been betting on cinema as a tool to explore the typical issues of...

A family tribe of Cro-Magnons faces hardships, such as hunger, animal attacks, Neanderthal attacks, and death from injuries as they migrate to find a...

The stories of four Iranian families who emigrate to Canada and the city they leave behind. As departure time approaches, social spaces become places...

In buildings where foreign workers lived in Germany, there were strict rules of conduct, defined by the house rules and supervised by the building...

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...