Movies: Emigration

The film is a travelogue of sorts. Ostrovsky’s personal family footage meets the archives of Soviet propaganda footage. The result is a kind of Khruschev-era mix with a collage of Soviet music and a voice-over of my reminiscences of the Cold War era....

Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. ...

A film about people who are leaving Serbia for economic reasons....

This documentary follows the lives of four elderly Japanese men living in Manila's impoverished districts. Known as "distressed Japanese," they navigate their daily lives with minimal earnings and assistance from others. Despite once having jobs and ...

An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York....

I followed the everyday lives of Ali, Kais, Ertan and Alban with my camera for over two years. The time was characterized by disappointments, conflicts and also great successes. It all began with a visit to the "Klingelpütz" youth center in the middl...

German Laura follows her husband and moves to Finland with their baby girl. Her days at home are lonely as her husband is constantly working....

A young man leaves Ireland for America, but doesn't forget home....

"Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for the deed himself, ...

A short, cautionary tale of emigrating to America....

With the spectre of COVID-19 looming, the old ways of waking and burying the dead are fractured and desolate in this curious tale of two bachelor brothers, Pádraig and Éamonn, from Achill Island, living and dying under the shadow of the Coronavirus....

Documents the highlights of a concert version of the musical written by former ABBA members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus, performed in Minnesota. Based on a series of novels detailing a family's poverty-driven migration from Sweden to America in...

Moving between the playful and the contemplative, explores the meaning of identity and home across three generations of an Iraqi family in Texas....

The day before they go their separate ways, three friends get together for one last all-nighter in the city that saw them grow....

One night, the phone rings in a traditional Portuguese snack bar from the country side. The Spanish Civil Guard is looking for Kunta. He isn't there and till he arrives people speculate about those phone calls and about who is that man. His he a thie...

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Documentary about Swedish emigration to Argentina via Brazil....

A wanted thief buries his wife and takes his disabled son to an orphanage. He wants to escape the law in another country, but he can't run from his own past....

Ilyas and Brahim work at a television repair shop. When the end of the day arrives, his boss sends them to bring a television to a costumer on the other side of Barcelona, hours before the much-anticipated FC Barcelona's UEFA Champions League final, ...

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