Immigration Movies

  • 2015
    Portrait of a Wind-up Maker

    Portrait of a Wind-up Maker

    Portrait of a Wind-up Maker

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    Chema is an expat architect from Spain who lives in Amsterdam. He has built up a new life there as a wind-up toy maker. He creates small pieces of...

    Portrait of a Wind-up Maker
  • 1970
    I Come From Away: An Immigrant in Maine

    I Come From Away: An Immigrant in Maine

    I Come From Away: An Immigrant in Maine

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    An intimate look inside the immigrant community in Portland, Maine, as told by Nyamuon Nguany Machar who arrived as refugee in 1995 and David Zwalita...

    I Come From Away: An Immigrant in Maine
  • 2016
    Four Passports

    Four Passports

    Four Passports

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    The film is a story of immigration and identity after the dissolution of former Yugoslavia, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Mihajlo Jevtic. It...

    Four Passports
  • 2013
    Zakaria

    Zakaria

    Zakaria

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    Zak is living in a village in Southern France. He has a quiet life, with his wife and his two kids. When he learns about his father's death in...

    Zakaria
  • 2015
    Carnotstraat 17

    Carnotstraat 17

    Carnotstraat 17

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    Carnotstraat 17 is a feature documentary looking more closely into the effect on someone’s identity through migration.

    Carnotstraat 17
  • 1970
    Enfants Enfermés

    Enfants Enfermés

    Enfants Enfermés

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    Enfants Enfermés
  • 1970
    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

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

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards
  • 2013
    Vi Ses Snart

    Vi Ses Snart

    Vi Ses Snart

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    When Ader Ismail fled from Somalia to Sweden, she thought it would not take long for her five children to join her. But the years go by and the...

    Vi Ses Snart
  • 1997
    Sambal Belacan in San Francisco

    Sambal Belacan in San Francisco

    Sambal Belacan in San Francisco

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

    Sambal Belacan in San Francisco
  • 1970
    The Price of Shelter

    The Price of Shelter

    The Price of Shelter

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    Private-sector rented accommodation for the Surinamese and Antillean Dutch who increasingly moved to Amsterdam from these former colonies in the...

    The Price of Shelter
  • 1970
    Remember When We Immigrated Here?

    Remember When We Immigrated Here?

    Remember When We Immigrated Here?

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    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

    Remember When We Immigrated Here?
  • 1970
    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    Through Immigrants' Eyes

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    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

    Through Immigrants' Eyes
  • 1970
    Hard Work and

    Hard Work and "Whatever"

    Hard Work and "Whatever"

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    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

    Hard Work and
  • 1970
    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

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    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about...

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew
  • 1970
    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    Klaira's Story - Berezka

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

    Klaira's Story - Berezka
  • 1970
    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

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

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past
  • 1970
    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

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

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?
  • 1970
    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

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

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World
  • 1970
    Gary's Story - No Second Best

    Gary's Story - No Second Best

    Gary's Story - No Second Best

    01970HD

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

    Gary's Story - No Second Best
  • 1970
    Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life

    Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life

    Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life

    01970HD

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

    Gary's Story - Under a Car in Life