Movies: Migration

To escape from a lack of perspective in Kosovo, Hana decides to resort to the services of Emir, an illegal smuggler in Serbia that will drive her to Hungary. On the way, complications arise as Emir's unscrupulous associates try to take advantage of H...

In April 2015, two shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean resulted in over a thousand deaths. The first, on 12 April, occurred when an overcrowded boat was approached by a large commercial vessel. Less than a week later, on 18 April 2015, a similar ...

The Zuquillos are four women who have worked for several years in a popular grocery market in the city of Quito, a place where they have cultivated a great friendship. One day, the entire market collapses due to its dire conditions, leaving the main ...

Documentary that focus on the lives of three Ecuadorian migrants. It is a portrait of the suffering, the effort and nostalgia of the Ecuadorians who arrived in Spain during the migratory wave of 1999 and 2000....

Guanape Sur. A barren rock island off the coast of Peru. No soil, no water. Nothing is growing here. Around its shores a restricted area has been established. The island serves hundreds of thousands of sea birds as a breeding ground....

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Over the course of thirteen years, the filmmaker and protagonist shares the experience of his binational family, taking us to his wife's country. "Becoming family" requires a significant cultural sacrifice, as they navigate the challenges of uprootin...

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John is a Haitian migrant who fled his country due to political instability and death threats. After a long journey, he managed to be recognized as a refugee in Mexico, allowing him to start a new chapter in a new land. However, for John, this story ...

A refugee's dinner routine is transformed when she begins to hear the voices of those she has lost. Based on a short story by Syrian writer Jehan Sayed Issa....

Stephen Tan, the youngest and the only photographer in his family, is tasked with creating his grandmother's funeral portrait. Never having taken his grandmother's photograph, he searches for old photographs in his family's ancestral home. There, he ...

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News explodes like a bomb! Due to the genetic mutation, immigrants living in Italy undergo a noticeable change. Is this wonderful country in danger of sinking? A television reporter decides to go over this strange theory, and the news is on the agend...

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 children get rejection after rejection from the Swedish Migration Board. Ader unable to reveal this to her...

A meeting between two strangers sparks the desire to understand each other through the medium of cinema. They both simultaneously start recording their surroundings on camera and crafting the resulting footage. They, Elettra from Italy and Hazem from...

Somewhere between documentary and fiction, this is an essay on questions of territory and human displacements made during an excursion from southern Spain to northern Morocco. Travelling on the Mediterranean rim, we hear immigrants tell their stories...

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Struggling with the move to Australia, a father concedes that he might not be the only one having a hard time with the transition....