Immigration Movies

A conversation between Idrees Khan and his mother on how the celebrate their Trini culture in Orlando

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

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...

In early summer of 2025, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials began detaining migrants at their asylum hearings, an ad-hoc...

An undocumented immigrant receives a heartwarming yet heartbreaking phone call from his daughter across the border.

Puente de la Costa Sur, winner of the San Francisco Foundation 2004 Community Leadership Awards (John R. May Award) - for its creative, grassroots...

Told through the eyes of 15-year-old Jamil Sunsin, Colossus is a modern-day immigrant tale of one family's desperate struggle after deportation leads...

A short film documenting the immigrant experience. Open-borders? Policing? Naturalizing? Etc.

A young woman who has migrated to Istanbul tells her family that she has built a successful life, while secretly living a very different reality at...

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

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

More than two million people from Oaxaca live in the USA, and some have brought their indigenous ballgame, pelota mixteca, with them. Pasajuego is...

Follows the history of the Cameleers, men who opened large areas of land in the Australian central desert using camels, and their struggle to be...

An uplifting story of an immigrant and her sixteen-year-old American car, and the experiences they share. A story of perseverance, loyalty and the...

With the help of hidden camera, Danish TV 2 documents how a known Danish imam teaches Muslim women about Islam's violent rules of adultery.

Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of...