Migration Movies
- 2019
Butterflies Can't Swim
Butterflies Can't Swim02019HD
Nabil has to deal with his fear of water caused by a trauma he had, which he tries, day after day, to fight.
- 2020
8 Poems of Emigration
8 Poems of Emigration02020HD
"8 Poems of Emigration" is a found footage film that focuses on the migration crisis. The film, while focusing on the immigration and immigration...
- 2021
A New Life, A New Fight
A New Life, A New Fight02021HD
A meeting between two strangers sparks the desire to understand each other through the medium of cinema. They both simultaneously start recording...
- 2022
Fadia’s Tree
Fadia’s Tree02022HD
While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is...
- 2018
The Photograph
The Photograph02018HD
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...
- 2023
A través de mí, cruzo las fronteras de su memoria
A través de mí, cruzo las fronteras de su memoria02023HD
- 2012
A better life is elsewhere
A better life is elsewhere02012HD
The film takes place in three nations: in Switzerland, Cuba and Bosnia. In each of these three countries we accompany persons who dream of a better...
- 1976
Liberty: A Dozen or So Views
Liberty: A Dozen or So Views01976HD
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...
- 2019
On the Wings of Hope
On the Wings of Hope02019HD
On the Wings of Hope depicts the 4 years of struggle for survival of 5 immigrants, one of them is a child, after the boat they were on sank while...
- 2020
Obāchan
Obāchan02020HD
Obāchan is Japanese. She left her native archipelago in 1941 to marry one of her compatriots, 17 years older, settled in Mexico. Through...
- 2016
Gyrischachen - von Sünden, Sofas und Cervelats
Gyrischachen - von Sünden, Sofas und Cervelats02016HD
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...
- 2011
Dear Africans
Dear Africans02011HD
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...
- 2001
Lights for Gita
Lights for Gita02001HD
This animated short, based on the book by Rachna Gilmore, is the story of Gita, an 8-year-old girl who can't wait to celebrate Divali - the Hindu...
- 2005
Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds
Crossroads at the Edge of Worlds02005HD
This video research is based on a trip to Morocco in July 2005, during which the director documented irregular migration transiting through Morocco,...
- 2021
Aita Mari
Aita Mari02021HD
The Stella Maris Berria is a tuna vessel destined for scrapping. However, Iñigo Mijangos and Iñigo Gutierrez, two members of the NGO...
- 2013
Vi Ses Snart
Vi Ses Snart02013HD
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...
- 2021
Frontier
Frontier02021HD
During a random check, the commander of the Czech Customs Unit notices that there are immigrants in the back of a van. In the turmoil that followed,...
- 2016
Iragan gunea Berlin
Iragan gunea Berlin02016HD
'Iragan gunea Berlin' follows five people from different origins as they move anonymously around the streets of Berlin. Each of them with another...
- 2019
Paseko txoriak
Paseko txoriak02019HD
It all started in July 2018. Groups of migrants coming from Africa endeavouring to cross the border with France started arriving at Irun train...
- 2013
The Land Between
The Land Between72013HD