Directed by Luisa Dantas • Documentary • 2011 • 97 minutes

Through the eyes of urban planners, community organizers, displaced youth, immigrant workers, and public housing residents, this verité-style documentary reveals how the story of New Orleans is the story of urban America: how democratic ...

Directed by Alain Martin • Documentary • With Alain Martin • 2025 • 90 minutes

What happens when the oppressor becomes your salvation? Through a letter to his grandfather, a Haitian filmmaker revisits the U.S. occupation of Haiti, unraveling the paradox of a man who longed for American rule and ...

Directed by Theo Rigby • Documentary • 2014 • 7 minutes

The Caretaker is a short film about the relationship between an immigrant caretaker and an elderly woman in the last months of her life. Joesy, a Fijian immigrant, works long hours providing live-in care for 95-year-old Haru Tsurumoto. Thro...

Directed by Jeremy S. Levine • Documentary • 2025 • 25 minutes

"The Return - Family Separation" portrays the challenges faced by 12-year-old Geovanny and his family. After being apprehended at the U.S. border and separated from his father for six months due to the U.S. family separation policy, ...

Directed by Anne Makepeace • Documentary • 2006 • 82 minutes

In 2004, thirteen thousand Somali Bantu refugees realized their dream of coming to America. They are now living in fifty cities across the country, becoming the largest African group from a single minority to settle in the United State...

Directed by Rosine Mbakam • Documentary • 2018 • 70 minutes

Sabine attaches a hair weave and gets to work. Her hands move quickly and precisely, as she tightly braids the hair in front of the sign in her salon promising African, European, and American-style coiffure. Sabine is a larger than-life...

Directed by Theo Rigby • Documentary • 2013 • 11 minutes

The Mayor is an intimate portrait of a small-town Southern Republican Mayor and his profound and unexpected connection to a mixed-status family of Mexican immigrants. Paul Bridges, the conservative Republican Mayor of Uvalda, Georgia, spea...

Directed by Heidi Schmidt Emberling • Documentary • 2001 • 66 minutes

Through intimate interviews with both her Jewish relatives in America and her German Lutheran relatives abroad, the director discovers a rich family tapestry spanning three continents, shaped by war, courage, prejudice, and fe...

Directed by Nausheen Dadabhoy • Documentary • With George Shakkour • 2022 • 95 minutes

Told through the lens of Muslims living in the United States, director Nausheen Dadabhoy offers a counter-narrative of pivotal moments in U.S. history and explores the impact of anti-Muslim rhetoric and policy...

Directed by Sofian Khan, Andres Caballero • Documentary • 2015 • 57 minutes

Far from his family in Chile, sheepherder Eraldo Pacheco must endure harsh conditions and loneliness in the high desert and isolated mountain pastures of the American west as he strives for a better life for his family. ...

Directed by Kristal Sotomayor • Documentary • With Linda Hernandez • 2023 • 21 minutes

An immigrant mother becomes an unexpected community leader during a groundbreaking campaign to end the Philadelphia police’s data-sharing with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Expanding Sanctuary tel...

Directed by Brenda Ávila-Hanna • Documentary • 2017 • 23 minutes

After the announcement of the policy known as "Deferred Action", Vanessa, an undocumented teenager, contemplates the possibility of a future she was ready to give up on. How will this life-changing opportunity impact her life and t...

Directed by Heddy Honigmann • Documentary • 1999 • 108 minutes

THE UNDERGROUND ORCHESTRA is a glorious documentary profile of musicians who play on the sidewalks of Paris and in the Metro. Filmmaker Heddy Honigmann (METAL AND MELANCHOLY and O AMOR NATURAL), illuminates the lives and music of a r...

Directed by Sarah Ema Friedland & Alessandra Lacorazza • Drama • With Brittany Henry, Claire Jamison, Rebecca Lovett, Samuel Dunning, Joe L. Hunt, John Jarusiewicz, Clarence C. Williams • 2020 • 7 minutes

At a border checkpoint, pregnant people are forced to endure invasive and emotionally abusi...

Directed by Glenn Morey and Julie Morey, co-directors • Documentary • 2018 • 38 minutes

What happens when the lives of children are reset by adoption, sent to grow up in new countries and families of a different race, language, and culture? To find out, the Side by Side project spent 10 years fi...

Directed by Brian Storm • Documentary • 2006 • 20 minutes

Kingsley's Crossing is the story of one man's dream to leave the poverty of life in Africa for the promised land of Europe. We walk in his shoes, as photojournalist Olivier Jobard accompanies Kingsley on his uncertain and perilous journey.

Directed by Eva Lewis • Documentary • 2019 • 76 minutes

Undeterred is a documentary about community resistance in the rural border town of Arivaca, Arizona. Since NAFTA, 9/11 and the Obama and Trump administrations border residents have been on the front-lines of the humanitarian crisis caused b...

Directed by Bill Ross IV, Turner Ross • Documentary • With Chad Foster, Martin Wall, Brylyn Wall • 2015 • 92 minutes

In Eagle Pass, Texas, where the U.S. and Mexico meet along the Rio Grande, a cattleman and the mayor face the dawn of a new reality. In the matter of a few turbulent months, the s...

Directed by Ellen Brodsky • Documentary • With Professor Teresa Van Hoy, Priscilla Reyes, Eric Villalpando • 2019 • 33 minutes

Twenty-five history students from St. Mary’s University take a 2,000 mile bus trip from the Alamo in San Antonio, Texas to Springfield, Illinois to build a Day of the De...

Directed by Theo Rigby • Documentary • 2011 • 20 minutes

Sin País (Without Country) attempts to get beyond the partisan politics and mainstream media’s ‘talking point’ approach to immigration issues by exploring one family’s complex and emotional journey involving deportation.

Directed by Sofian Khan, Andres Caballero • Documentary • With Khalid Awda, Paul Braun, John McCain • 2019 • 59 minutes

As the American involvement in the war-torn region winds down, these abandoned allies are faced with an impossible choice – wait for the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) they’ve be...

Directed by Victoria Bruce • Documentary • 2022 • 92 minutes

The first Trump administration tried to shut down immigration to the United States, and even with no changes to the actual law, they nearly succeeded. Things didn't get much better when Biden came into office. But activist lawyers, mos...