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Pub. Date
2020.
Description
BLOSSOMS FROM ASH is a stunning visual and narrative exploration of life in the world’s largest refugee camp. The film is a portrait of lives discarded for profit, enabled by hatred and religious persecution. It features historical accounts, an educational look at the origins of the past and current conflict, and eyewitness testimony from the refugee survivors of the Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar.
42) Elena
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
ELENA, a young Brazilian woman, travels to New York with the same dream as her mother, to become a movie actress. She leaves behind her childhood spent in hiding during the years of the military dictatorship. She also leaves Petra, her seven year old sister. Two decades later, Petra also becomes an actress and goes to New York in search of ELENA. She only has a few clues about her: home movies, newspaper clippings, a diary and letters. At any moment...
43) Activized
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
ACTIVIZED follows the stories of ordinary Americans who, for the first time in their lives, have left their comfort zones and become involved in gun violence prevention, voting rights and immigrants’ rights. Interweaving their personal stories against the backdrop of the causes they fight for, we experience their motivations, successes and failures, their sacrifices, and victories. Above all, we celebrate these inspiring, courageous citizens for...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. There are immigrants from every country in South America, Mexico, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and China. The people who live in Jackson Heights, in their cultural, racial and ethnic diversity, are representative of the new wave of immigrants to America. The subject of this film is the daily life of...
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Set in the heart of America’s bible belt, _Welcome To Shelbyville_ follows a small Southern town as they grapple with rapid demographic change and issues of immigrant integration. Shot between the 2008 Presidential election and spring 2009, the film captures the complexity of the African American, Latino, white and Somali subjects as their lives intertwine against the backdrop of a crumbling economy and a promising new Administration.
47) Floating Life
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
As China prepares to take control of Hong Kong in 1997, a Hong Kong Chinese family disperses around the world. Mr and Mrs Chan (Edwin Pang and Cecilia Fong Sing Lee), and two teenage sons, follow their second daughter Bing (Annie Yip) to a large and sterile house in the suburbs of a major Australian city. Bing has been in Australia for seven years, but the loneliness has made her nervous and bitter. Her older sister Yen (Annette Shun Wah) lives in...
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Set on the border of Thailand and Eastern Burma, CROSSING MIDNIGHT tells the story of a remarkable community of refugees from Burma working against incredible odds to help their own. Today, one million internally displaced persons are living in the jungles of Eastern Burma in the midst of on-going armed conflict. There, they live on the run, risking injury and death to forage for food to sustain their families. Over two million more have fled to the...
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
THE UNIVERSALITY OF IT ALL is a feature-length documentary that focuses on the topics of human migration and inequality. As intimate as it is informative, it explains the complexity of human migration by providing valuable data and information, but also by showing how it affects the reality of two friends and their day-to-day lives.
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Abd is a 24-year-old Syrian who took part in the early days of the 2011 revolution and now lives in Padova, Italy. Together with his German friend Max he is working on a film called UNWRITTEN LETTERS. As they work together on turning Abd’s reality in Italy into a film, Abd revisits his past and explores possible futures. The film documents the story of a young Syrian man arriving in Europe and the process of making sense of who he is through film...
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
After five years of studying in Paris, Arash has struggled to adapt to life in France and has decided to return to Iran. In the hope of changing his mind, his two friends take him on one last trip across France. Official Selection at the **BFI London Film Festival**. *"Goormaghtigh reinvigorates the summertime road-trip genre with this lyrical, keenly observed, acutely political comedy." - Richard Brody, **New Yorker***
53) 19 Days
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
This short documentary follows several refugee families during their first 19 days in Canada, as they navigate an unfamiliar terrain that has suddenly become their home. During the 19-day timeline established by the federal government, an initial assessment is done and refugees are assisted with everything from airport reception and orientation to referrals, documents, and counseling. 19 DAYS reveals the human side of the refugee resettlement process....
Pub. Date
1981.
Description
Herbert and Lotte Strauss fled Germany in 1943, escaping their near certain fate in a Nazi Concentration camp. The brave pair take us back through time, sharing the details of their trying and personal journey to the United States and the life that followed. Herbert and Lotte describe the urgency they felt to leave Germany for the sake of their daughter, who was born the year the couple immigrated to America. Still tormented by the loss of many family...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Since the age of 4, Angy Rivera has lived in the United States with a secret that threatens to upend her life: She is undocumented. Angy arrived with her mother, fleeing violence, poverty, and civil war in their native Colombia. For 20 years they live in the shadows, struggling to stay afloat financially and avoid deportation while battling a complex and inequitable immigration system. DON'T TELL ANYONE is a phrase whispered often and branded deeply...
56) Islandborn
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage." -- Provided by publisher.
57) The Pirogue
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
In Moussa Toure’s powerful epic fiction film, a group of 30 men sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea - and the possibility of never reaching their destination - in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered to lead one of the many pirogues that...
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
The Caretaker and The Mayor are two powerful short films that explore contemporary immigration issues in the U.S. through intimate portraits of relationships between recent immigrants, and those who came to the U.S. generations ago. The Caretaker is a short film about the relationship between an immigrant caretaker and an elderly woman in the last months of her life. Joesy, a Fijian immigrant, works long hours providing live-in care for 95-year-old...
59) Growing Up Smith
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
In 1979, an Indian family moves to America with hopes of living the American Dream. While their 10-year-old boy Smith falls head-over-heels for the girl next door, his desire to become a "good old boy" propels him further away from his family's ideals than ever before. Official Selection at the **Seattle International Film Festival** and **CAAMFest**. *"A crowd-friendly immigrant's tale painted with a thick coat of '70s nostalgia." - John DeFore,...
60) No Place To Grow
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
NO PLACE TO GROW follows a group of Latino farmers who find themselves representing a movement to save the last green space centered within a neighborhood facing gentrification. Over time we find out what happens when migrated farming traditions intersect with the “urban growth machine.” Set in Santa Cruz, CA, a small city known for its liberal ideology, a community becomes conflicted as the fate of the garden is in jeopardy.
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