Immigrant Movies

  • 2021
    A Cup of Sugar

    A Cup of Sugar

    A Cup of Sugar

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    A reclusive non-conforming immigrant arouses fear and suspicion within a conservative insular community.

    A Cup of Sugar
  • 2018
    Shehita

    Shehita

    Shehita

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    Tensions, along with demons from the past, rise as a young farmer, the mashgiach (kosher supervisor) and the local Rabbi try to decide what to do...

    Shehita
  • 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
  • 1970
    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

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    Chinese for Affirmative Action is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Award for being "a champion against discrimination and for...

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012
  • 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

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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 - No Second Best
  • 1982
    Finnish American Lives

    Finnish American Lives

    Finnish American Lives

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    A moving portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting that fragile community of memory...

    Finnish American Lives
  • 1970
    Give it Back!

    Give it Back!

    Give it Back!

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    Olivia (12), just moved with her family from New York and arrives for her first day of school. She struggles to find her place within the hierarchy...

    Give it Back!
  • 1970
    Boat People

    Boat People

    Boat People

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    After being jailed by the Macoutes for complaining about worker exploitation at the baseball factory where he worked, a Haitian man and his family...

    Boat People
  • 1991
    On the Waves of the Adriatic

    On the Waves of the Adriatic

    On the Waves of the Adriatic

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    Melbourne filmmaker Brian McKenzie spent 5 years working on this engrossing study of a not-so-typical Brunswick household. It's a laconic,...

    On the Waves of the Adriatic
  • 1983
    The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis

    The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis

    The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis

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    Fifteen-year-old Pavle Hromiš, obeying the will of his parents, leaves Germany and goes to live in Yugoslavia with his grandmother. He has...

    The First Trimester of Pavle Hromis