Immigrant Family Movies

A young Filipino man learns to be the caregiver of his abusive grandmother who suffers from dementia, only to be mistaken as her old lover.

Julia Reyes, the precocious and strong-willed teenage daughter of first-generation Mexican immigrants, dreams of becoming a famous writer far away...

When a new father suddenly loses his own dad, an opportunity to travel back in time for an evening gives him a chance to end things on a better note.

Olya, a straight-A middle school student, is experiencing her parents' break-up and her first love at the same time, all while struggling to maintain...

To see snow and learn German, the young Vietnamese girl Trúc Lâm (Nano Nguyen) moves to a small town in the middle of the Erzgebirge...

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...

In Texas, construction workers face the deadliest conditions in the country. This documentary follows three immigrant families who are rising up to...

Jalil is 17-year-old boy living with his Iranian family in a suburb near Helsinki. Though he has lived in Finland all his life, it seems hard for him...

A powerful set of stories of “righteous persons” taking action along the U.S.-Mexico border, motivated by moral conviction and...

Burmese boy Kaung and his family emigrated to Japan with the hope for a better life. They have lived in Tokyo for years, but never obtained a visum....

Soon Come Back is a poetic documentary about migration’s effect on Nande's relationships to “home” in Jamaica and the US, and her...

Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian...

From humble beginnings in a small slate roofed village in Greece to the heyday of America's movie palaces, the Latchis Family built an empire of...

Tom Tamar Pauer's family is both Israeli and German, Jewish and Christian. When she moves to Israel with her German children after 16 years in...

Roberto, a Peruvian boy in his teens, has moved to Montreal to live with his father, Bob Montoya, and his new Canadian family. While Bob tries to...

The short film tells a slice-of-life story set in a family-run Chinese bakery, exploring parenting philosophies and the pressures faced by the...

Santiago Domingo is a child of an immigrant who is concerned about the recent changes on immigrants. As he retells the day where he found out these...

Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal sets out to cross the generational divide, confronting long-simmering tensions with her Chinese immigrant mother by...

After forcefully being called to their grandfather's funeral by their abusive mother, our protagonist is forced to deal with their suicidal...

Dirty Laundry illustrates the vulnerable reality of Burmese women forced to confront the deep-seated misogyny that surfaces in their everyday lives