Showing 1 - 10 of 166 titles with a criteria of Subject is Immigration and Refugees

Abandoned

Exposé of the horrifying results of the 1996 immigration law.

Bullfrog Films | 2001 | 55 minutes

Al Otro Lado (To the Other Side)

An aspiring corrido composer faces two life-changing choices: to traffic drugs or unlawfully cross the border into the United States.

Icarus Films | 2005 | 70 minutes

Alien Citizen: An Earth Odyssey

Elizabeth Liang is a Cross-Cultural Kid (CCK). A CCK is a person who has lived in—or meaningfully interacted with—two or more cultural environments for a significant period of time during developmental years.

Collective Eye Films | 2022 | 90 minutes

Angel Peacock

Twelve-year-old Dawod, a Yazidi refugee, faces the challenges of his first year in Canada.

National Film Board of Canada | 2019 | 25 minutes

Another Paradise

Fifty years ago the entire Creole population of the Chagos Islands was expelled by the British authorities. This secret operation took place in order to lease the largest island to the US Navy so that it could install a military base. Now Chagossian exiles embark on a struggle to return home.

Andana Films | 2019 | 82 minutes

Bad Hombres

Journalist Stef Biemans travels between Guatemala and the U.S. during the first months of the Trump Administration, to see what the so-called ‘bad hombres’ hope to find in the U.S.

Pragda Films | 2019 | 50 minutes

Baghdad Twist

A "visual memoir" blending photos, archival footage and Super-8 home movies of the filmmaker's Jewish family in Iraq until their departure for a new home in Canada in 1970.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 34 minutes

Barber Shop - Ep 1: Clacton-on-Sea / UK

How possibly could the UK vote for Brexit? In Clacton-on-Sea, a small seaside town, barber Susan and her clients reflects on current European issues like migration, religious extremism, economic decline and the position of the UK vis-à-vis the EU.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes

Barber Shop - Ep 5: Smara Refugee Camp / Algeria

Set in the Western Sahara, Barber Shop Algeria tells the story of the last colony in Africa: since Morocco illegally annexed the territory of the Sahrawi, this nomad population has been living in refugee camps along a long Moroccan wall built in the middle of the desert.

First Hand Films | 2017 | 26 minutes

Barcelona or Die

Madou, a Senegalese fisherman, risks his life on an illegal boat to Europe.

Icarus Films | 2008 | 52 minutes