Migration Movies

Ilya learned street-smarts in the harsh realities of Russia's Far North, book-smarts in literature class, and the strength of the fist from a father w...

Mali - Algeria - Libya - Italy. Issa’s escape from West Africa to the European mainland lasted ten years. Everything was supposed to be better here. B...

For years, together with his partners from the production company O Quadro, he has been betting on cinema as a tool to explore the typical issues of y...

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...

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is...

Five women, members of the Sans Papiers, talk about the history and reasons for founding the organisation, as well as their most important demands, li...

A metaphor of the Flood in our times, The Flood is the rain of violence that washes over us. Noah´s Ark is the train that runs through Mexico toward t...

Exclusive access to chief diplomat of the EU Federica Mogherini as Europe faces a crumbling world order.

From the Sahara to Mellila, witnesses talk about how they narrowly escaped death, unlike their companions - all migrants who were literally and symbol...

In April 2015, two shipwrecks in the central Mediterranean resulted in over a thousand deaths. The first, on 12 April, occurred when an overcrowded bo...

A migrant boat has been stranded in the Mediterranean Sea for 30 hours. As authorities ignore calls for help, the Sea-Watch Crew, an NGO, launches an...

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...

Between 1931 to 2002, Switzerland issued some six million seasonal residence permits, known as "A" permits, to immigrant workers. This status carried...

The story of the children who work 12-14 hour days in the fields without the protection of child labor laws. These children are not toiling in the fie...

A high-rise apartment built in the 1960s provides housing for 2500 people from 42 nations. Separated from the city by a river and bounded by towering...

The film explores the reasons for emigrating from Italy and describes the feeling of being a stranger in one's own country after many years in Switzer...

After the world premiere in Luxembourg, the first film by the Portuguese descendant Philippe Machado arrives in his native country through Filmin. A m...