Migration Movies

Partitions draws on photographs, state documents, audio recordings and footage of domestic spaces and routines, to tell a story of Sindhi migration...

Parallel City

Living in downtown Toronto to attend school, Lina Li returns to the comfort of home in Thornhill and her mother's cooking. In this candid short,...

It’s Karla’s first birthday away from home. And music will be her way back.

2015, the year of the so-called “refugee crisis”: Hundreds of thousands of people sought refuge in Germany from war and persecution. Once...

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...

Struggling with the move to Australia, a father concedes that he might not be the only one having a hard time with the transition.

Holding onto the promise of a new life beyond the border, a young man follows a smuggler through a remote and unforgiving landscape, only to...

A young man receiving medical treatment in the hospital reminisces about fishing in the small dory his grandfather owned.

A story about the migration from Sicily to Tunisy over the unity of Italy.

Brair Kani explores an ancestral house located in Srinagar, Kashmir. Using the attic as a site of reflection, the film navigates the relationship...

Two hopeful migrants must make the long, arduous journey across a desolate landscape toward the promise of a better life only to discover their...

Spanning 45 years, the life of the Lee family is told through home videos that reflect themes of memory formation, roles and relationships, and how...

"Our Family" is a film about the time that we can't get back. I left my home along with my friends and family behind in 2017, when I was aged 15 to...

Three alien women with futuristic sound headgear walk around enclosed spaces engulfed in sand. They are connected by their common ability to listen...

This intimate letter from a migrant grandson about his Italian grandmother, also a migrant, unites in a trip to Italy the portrait of Venezuelan...

Marcelo was taken to Paris, where he has lived since he was 12. After the sudden death of his mother in 1992, he returns for the first time to the...

It is the final encounter between América and Javier. América pays him to visit and listen to her most intimate and disturbing stories....

A short animation using the individual entries from within The Archive of the Irish in Britain as a new entry on each frame of the character's...