Immigrant Family Movies
- 2025

Mayor of Lowell
Mayor of Lowell02025HD
This short documentary chronicles the culture and arts of Cambodian Americans and the Lowell, MA community through the eyes of Sokhary Chau, the...
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- 2022

AlieNation
AlieNation02022HD
A family of immigrants is chased through the woods by border patrol. But they're not alone.
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- 2018

Built to Last
Built to Last02018HD
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...
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- 2023

Ruthful
Ruthful02023HD
When a Chinese-Canadian college student returns home to Toronto, she visits a Hong Kong cafe she frequented during her childhood. Through eating the...
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- 2017

Yellow Heat
Yellow Heat5.32017HD
In a field surrounded and squeezed by increasing industrialization, an immigrant family, deep in financial debt, struggles to survive through...
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- 2010

Playing With Dolls
Playing With Dolls02010HD
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...
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- 2017

Passage of Life
Passage of Life62017HD
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....
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- 1970

Florence from Ohio
Florence from Ohio01970HD
Filmmaker Stephanie Wang-Breal sets out to cross the generational divide, confronting long-simmering tensions with her Chinese immigrant mother by...
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- 2026

Carry On!
Carry On!02026HD
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- 2025

Saturday Class
Saturday Class02025HD
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...
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- 2019

The Clash
The Clash1.52019HD
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...
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- 2024

Borderland
Borderland02024HD
A powerful set of stories of “righteous persons” taking action along the U.S.-Mexico border, motivated by moral conviction and...
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- 2026

The Three Graces
The Three Graces102026HD
In 1860s London, three Greek female artists attend a gallery opening, seeking to impress the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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- 2022

Dirty Laundry
Dirty Laundry02022HD
Dirty Laundry illustrates the vulnerable reality of Burmese women forced to confront the deep-seated misogyny that surfaces in their everyday lives
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- 1970

Mehman
Mehman101970HD
A joyous wedding dance rehearsal in a Pakistani immigrant household turns into a night of confrontation between a matriarch and her son when he...
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- 2025

Eastern White
Eastern White102025HD
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...
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- 1970

One Hundred Thousand Whys
One Hundred Thousand Whys01970HD
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...
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- 2013

My German Children
My German Children02013HD
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...
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- 1970

mother tongue; bahasa ibu
mother tongue; bahasa ibu01970HD
Athena must navigate fraught cultural and family ties after a sudden break up forces her back into her childhood home with her disapproving mother...
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- 2023

Soon Come Back
Soon Come Back02023HD
Soon Come Back is a poetic documentary about migration’s effect on Nande's relationships to “home” in Jamaica and the US, and her...
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