Immigration Movies

The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC), with The San Francisco Foundation...

“Sambal Belacan in San Francisco” is a documentary which revolves around three women from Singapore who move to San Francisco in the...

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

Canada as a refuge for LBGTQ+ immigrants: Yazan from Iraq, Nata from Central Africa, Aida from Iran and Eilyn from Colombia all had to flee their...

Deep in Mexico two brothers sit in a plaza discussing a broken fuel pump. In a few days they will leave for work. With their father and some friends...

Detention of immigrant children in a former medium-security prison in Texas in 2007-8 leads to controversy when three activist attorneys discover...

It began with a bus crashing through the gates of an embassy in Havana and unraveled into one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human...

Targeted for several failed redevelopment plans dating back to the days of Robert Moses, Willets Point, a gritty area in New York City known as the...

After losing her husband, 84-year-old Kristina shares personal thoughts and emotions, offering a glimpse into her life's longing for love and...

This film tells a story of ethnic Koreans from Russia and the post-Soviet territories making their new home in New York City. The history of the...

Natives of the New World is a short documentary film shot on cell phones by the Kino Mosaik collective, which was founded in Lesbos Island, Greece,...

A poetic short featuring the voice of an undocumented young Latina woman who was brought to the U.S. as a child. The film introduces viewers to a...

An undocumented immigrant explores his and his family's immigration trauma while grasping hope through a voicemail.

Yadira, a creative young Cuban girl, struggles packing on her final day home. Embarking on an immigration journey alone, her suitcase feels too small...

Somewhere between documentary and fiction, this is an essay on questions of territory and human displacements made during an excursion from southern...

The Kabyle people define themselves first and foremost through the spoken word. Every gesture, every moment of their daily lives can give rise to a...

Ways of Being Home explores the immigrant experience from the perspective of the Mexican community living in Northfield, a college town in southern...

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

90's era home videos of a Mexican father starting a new life in the United States