Movies: Emigration

Dao (22) is a young Thai woman. She arrives in the Netherlands to share the rest of her life with a dutch called Michel. The confrontation with a man she barely knows in a strange country with foreign tastes, scents and habits makes Dao feel rootless...

Two Senegalese men walk through a forest in Morocco at night. As they try to find a passageway to the north, they talk about a strange dream. Two officers from the Spanish Civil Guard patrol the Spanish coast in an SUV. The car's headlights probe the...

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

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

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....

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 ...

Sokol is a middle-aged Kosovar Albanian who, together with his family, emigrates from Kosovo to Turkey, and faces the foreign and unknown world. After some time he becomes homesick, eventually leaving his last will he gave to his son that when he die...

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After the death of his wife, a wanted thief decides to surrender his disabled child to an orphanage and emigrate, but his son's first words evoke love and willingness to bear responsibility....

Adnan, a 16-year-old Syrian who has lived in France with his family for two years, is trying to come to term with his mysterious past....

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

The tragedy of the Syrian people: War, conflict, loss, migration, exile, asylum, detention, drowning… A deserted place. Abandoned people. Abandoned country. The doors slammed shot; the doors are now locked - the keys thrown away...for what seems fore...

An elderly Jewish woman, who was a teenager during the outset of the Holocaust and was forced to choose between her own life and her younger brother's, still lives with the guilt until she finally shares her nightmare experience with her own adult da...

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...

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

A man from communist Czechoslovakia unexpectedly meets his childhood love on a flight to Cuba. When they stop over in Canada, he has a plan… but can he trust her?...

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....