Migration Movies

In an early work, video artist Dara Birnbaum records a cross section of fellow passengers aboard the Staten Island Ferry while en route to the Statue...

The Stella Maris Berria is a tuna vessel destined for scrapping. However, Iñigo Mijangos and Iñigo Gutierrez, two members of the NGO Salvamento Maríti...

A dutch film maker, married to a Nicaraguan, sets himself a goal of finding out what kind of people is risking life trying to emigrate over the border...

At the beginning of the 60's, thousands of Portuguese turned up in France through the underground. They were fleeing misery, war and repression. Left...

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 Saye...

On 28 October 2015, a migrant boat left the coast of Western Turkey heading to the closest European coast – the Greek island of Lesvos. The shipwreck...

A family history archive as told by matriarch Azalu Mekonnen and her granddaughter Samira Hooks.

Living in downtown Toronto to attend school, Lina Li returns to the comfort of home in Thornhill and her mother's cooking. In this candid short, filmm...

A meeting between two strangers sparks the desire to understand each other through the medium of cinema. They both simultaneously start recording thei...

Three Venezuelan women cross the border into Colombia to buy a packet of pasta.

Off-site means a character, an object, or an act that is not visible on the screen, but is part of the scene. "Gniele baila" presents a story about wo...

A group of inspiring African teenagers brought illegally or trafficked into the UK overcome desperate situations and build new lives for themselves in...

It all started in July 2018. Groups of migrants coming from Africa endeavouring to cross the border with France started arriving at Irun train station...

Nabil has to deal with his fear of water caused by a trauma he had, which he tries, day after day, to fight.

Europe. Freedom, Peace and solidarity. For many years we have been spreading freedom, peace and wealth on the African continent. It is about time we e...

People who have to leave where they live, let their photo taken for the last time in front of a backdrop. The photographer gives the photographs to ev...

Five Afghan men try to reach Europe. The filmmakers followed them for over six months, filming their clandestine journey and chronicling a migration c...

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 childr...