Immigrant Family Movies

  • 2025
    Mayor of Lowell

    Mayor of Lowell

    Mayor of Lowell

    02025HD

    This short documentary chronicles the culture and arts of Cambodian Americans and the Lowell, MA community through the eyes of Sokhary Chau, the...

    Mayor of Lowell
  • 2022
    AlieNation

    AlieNation

    AlieNation

    02022HD

    A family of immigrants is chased through the woods by border patrol. But they're not alone.

    AlieNation
  • 2018
    Built to Last

    Built to Last

    Built to Last

    02018HD

    From humble beginnings in a small slate roofed village in Greece to the heyday of America's movie palaces, the Latchis Family built an empire of...

    Built to Last
  • 2023
    Ruthful

    Ruthful

    Ruthful

    02023HD

    When a Chinese-Canadian college student returns home to Toronto, she visits a Hong Kong cafe she frequented during her childhood. Through eating the...

    Ruthful
  • 2017
    Yellow Heat

    Yellow Heat

    Yellow Heat

    5.32017HD

    In a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in financial debt, struggles to survive through...

    Yellow Heat
  • 2010
    Playing With Dolls

    Playing With Dolls

    Playing With Dolls

    02010HD

    Olya, a straight-A middle school student, is experiencing her parents' break-up and her first love at the same time, all while struggling to maintain...

    Playing With Dolls
  • 2017
    Passage of Life

    Passage of Life

    Passage of Life

    62017HD

    Burmese boy Kaung and his family emigrated to Japan with the hope for a better life. They have lived in Tokyo for years, but never obtained a visum....

    Passage of Life
  • 1970
    Florence from Ohio

    Florence from Ohio

    Florence from Ohio

    01970HD

    Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal sets out to cross the generational divide, confronting long-simmering tensions with her Chinese immigrant mother by...

    Florence from Ohio
  • 2026
    Carry On!

    Carry On!

    Carry On!

    02026HD

    Carry On!
  • 2025
    Saturday Class

    Saturday Class

    Saturday Class

    02025HD

    The short film tells a slice-of-life story set in a family-run Chinese bakery, exploring parenting philosophies and the pressures faced by the...

    Saturday Class
  • 2019
    The Clash

    The Clash

    The Clash

    1.52019HD

    Roberto, a Peruvian boy in his teens, has moved to Montreal to live with his father, Bob Montoya, and his new Canadian family. While Bob tries to...

    The Clash
  • 2024
    Borderland

    Borderland

    Borderland

    02024HD

    A powerful set of stories of “righteous persons” taking action along the U.S.-Mexico border, motivated by moral conviction and...

    Borderland
  • 2026
    The Three Graces

    The Three Graces

    The Three Graces

    102026HD

    In 1860s London, three Greek female artists attend a gallery opening, seeking to impress the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

    The Three Graces
  • 2022
    Dirty Laundry

    Dirty Laundry

    Dirty Laundry

    02022HD

    Dirty Laundry illustrates the vulnerable reality of Burmese women forced to confront the deep-seated misogyny that surfaces in their everyday lives

    Dirty Laundry
  • 1970
    Mehman

    Mehman

    Mehman

    101970HD

    A joyous wedding dance rehearsal in a Pakistani immigrant household turns into a night of confrontation between a matriarch and her son when he...

    Mehman
  • 2025
    Eastern White

    Eastern White

    Eastern White

    102025HD

    This Short Animated film is a personal project that aims to make the viewer experience a glimpse into the feelings, emotions and experiences that an...

    Eastern White
  • 1970
    One Hundred Thousand Whys

    One Hundred Thousand Whys

    One Hundred Thousand Whys

    01970HD

    Maddy, a young Chinese girl in London, spends her days at a restaurant where her mother works as a chef. But at home, her sister’s rejection of...

    One Hundred Thousand Whys
  • 2013
    My German Children

    My German Children

    My German Children

    02013HD

    Tom Tamar Pauer's family is both Israeli and German, Jewish and Christian. When she moves to Israel with her German children after 16 years in...

    My German Children
  • 1970
    mother tongue; bahasa ibu

    mother tongue; bahasa ibu

    mother tongue; bahasa ibu

    01970HD

    Athena must navigate fraught cultural and family ties after a sudden break up forces her back into her childhood home with her disapproving mother...

    mother tongue; bahasa ibu
  • 2023
    Soon Come Back

    Soon Come Back

    Soon Come Back

    02023HD

    Soon Come Back is a poetic documentary about migration’s effect on Nande's relationships to “home” in Jamaica and the US, and her...

    Soon Come Back