Immigrant Experience Movies

After moving from Calcutta to New York, members of the Ganguli family maintain a delicate balancing act between honoring the traditions of their...

Three Asian Americans tell their stories of immigration, growing up, assimilation, and finding themselves in this heartfelt stand-up comedy special.

Robert Kongaika runs from his family to join the military and becomes the first Tongan US Air Force Colonel. This is the true story of the island...

With The Marshall Project and the Pulitzer Center, a look at one immigrant mother’s struggle to keep her children safe and housed, with her...

This feature documentary studies the different faces of Montreal’s Greek community in 1969. Instead of giving voice to the businessmen and...

After the near death of her grandfather, Chinese Canadian filmmaker Michelle Wong embarks on a personal journey back home to her small town of St....

A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced portrayal of a courageous family coping with a...

This dramatic story follows a young Nicaraguan immigrant, Irene, as she faces the challenges of life in the U.S. and re-evaluates her relationships...

A portrait of growing up told through filmmaker Sean Wang's middle school yearbook. Go Hornets.

Hang Sou and his family, preliterate tribal farmers, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing their war-consumed native Laos....

Peter/Afshin has finally made it. Accepted by his elite private school, his past life tucked neatly out of view. But when a newly arrived Iranian...

When a first generation American son learns of his Russian immigrant father's financial catastrophe, he reluctantly agrees to one last tumultuous...

Prague, 2022 - Having found refuge from the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, two women and their young daughters face the waiting and hope of an imminent...

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...

A Vietnamese immigrant mother and daughter in the US argue over how to honor the late patriarch as they shop for his second death anniversary, and...

Stone Street documents the life and experiences of a Trinidadian diaspora family and their enduring connection to the long standing family home in...

Home movie collection of the Bohulano Family of Stockton, CA. Footage dates between the 1950s-1970s.

One evening, Alia and Neena, two young Indian women, dine at Sulaimani, an Indian restaurant in Paris. The meal stirs up buried emotions and...

Monica is a 19 years old girl full of insecurities thanks to something that happened to her years ago, her brain block the events. She goes to a...