Movies: Immigrant

  • 1999
    Berlino

    Berlino (1999)

    Berlino

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    What do Italian guest-workers do when they get home, after a hard day's work on one of the many new building sites in Berlin? They talk, get bored, phone home. They try to survive. Berlino is a moving documentary about displacement....

    Berlino
  • 1969
    The Swimming Lesson

    The Swimming Lesson (1969)

    The Swimming Lesson

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    Based on a true story, teenage, Muslim refugee girls in burkinis take a fantastical swimming lesson in Idaho. The initiative for swimming lessons began after a newly arrived refugee, a Congolese boy, drowned in the summer of 2017. ​​...

    The Swimming Lesson
  • 2017
    Lower Heaven

    Lower Heaven (2017)

    Lower Heaven

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    Tehran 2017, three days in life of two young undocumented Afghani brothers, recently immigrated to Iran, who see their destiny take a turn just as a better life seems to open up to them....

    Lower Heaven
  • 2009
    Gurbet - Fremde Heimat

    Gurbet - Fremde Heimat (2009)

    Gurbet - Fremde Heimat

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    Gurbet - Fremde Heimat
  • 2003
    See You, Amsterdam

    See You, Amsterdam (2003)

    See You, Amsterdam

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    A Ghanaian woman, Nana Ama, finds out at airport Schiphol that her papers are false. Her dream to start a new life in the United States falls apart. After escaping the authorities, she tries to earn a living in the Bijlmer in Amsterdam....

    See You, Amsterdam
  • 1969
    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012 (1969)

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012

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    Chinese for Affirmative Action is a recipient of the San Francisco Community Leadership Award for being "a champion against discrimination and for advancing systemic change for a racially just society. With its foundation firmly in the Asian and Paci...

    Chinese for Affirmative Action: San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards 2012
  • 1969
    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards (1969)

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards

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    The San Francisco Foundation presents 2013 Community Leadership Awardee, Educators for Fair Consideration (E4FC), with The San Francisco Foundation Award, made to an organization demonstrating exemplary commitment to improving human relations in the ...

    E4FC - 2013 San Francisco Foundation Community Leadership Awards
  • 1969
    Remember When We Immigrated Here?

    Remember When We Immigrated Here? (1969)

    Remember When We Immigrated Here?

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    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about their new lives yearning to see her American world through their eyes. Yelena understands that life in t...

    Remember When We Immigrated Here?
  • 1969
    Through Immigrants' Eyes

    Through Immigrants' Eyes (1969)

    Through Immigrants' Eyes

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    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about their new lives yearning to see her American world through their eyes. Yelena understands that life in t...

    Through Immigrants' Eyes
  • 1969
    Hard Work and

    Hard Work and "Whatever" (1969)

    Hard Work and "Whatever"

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    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about their new lives yearning to see her American world through their eyes. Yelena understands that life in t...

    Hard Work and
  • 1969
    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew (1969)

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew

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    This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about their new lives yearning to see her American world through their eyes. Yelena understands that life in t...

    Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew
  • 1969
    Klaira's Story - Berezka

    Klaira's Story - Berezka (1969)

    Klaira's Story - Berezka

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    Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of immigration changed their sense of self and altered the fabric of their relationship....

    Klaira's Story - Berezka
  • 1969
    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past (1969)

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past

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    Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of immigration changed their sense of self and altered the fabric of their relationship....

    Klaira's Story - Connection to the Past
  • 1969
    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here? (1969)

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?

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    Klaira presents a surprising vision of assimilation and a loving depiction of San Francisco. She and her grandparents explore how the experience of immigration changed their sense of self and altered the fabric of their relationship....

    Klaira's Story - Why Was I Here?
  • 1969
    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World (1969)

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World

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    Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have recently immigrated to the US from the former Soviet Union. Gary's family is from Moscow....

    Gary's Story - Corleones of the Dancing World
  • 1969
    Gary's Story - No Second Best

    Gary's Story - No Second Best (1969)

    Gary's Story - No Second Best

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    Gary's Story is part of a collective filmmaking project that looks at relationships between teenagers and their grandparents in families that have recently immigrated to the US from the former Soviet Union. Gary's family is from Moscow....

    Gary's Story - No Second Best
  • 2017
    Flesh and Sand

    Flesh and Sand (2017)

    Flesh and Sand

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    Based on true accounts, the superficial lines between subject and bystander are blurred and bound together, allowing individuals to walk in a vast space and thoroughly live a fragment of the refugees' personal journeys....

    Flesh and Sand
  • 1982
    Finnish American Lives

    Finnish American Lives (1982)

    Finnish American Lives

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    A moving portrait of traditional Finnish American culture in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, highlighting that fragile community of memory connecting ourselves with parents and grandparents. It uses the “biographical model” of folklore filmmaking to...

    Finnish American Lives
  • 1969
    Give it Back!

    Give it Back! (1969)

    Give it Back!

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    Olivia (12), just moved with her family from New York and arrives for her first day of school. She struggles to find her place within the hierarchy of her new school. Finding herself caught between the popular students and her shy classmate, Alem, Ol...

    Give it Back!
  • 1969
    Boat People

    Boat People (1969)

    Boat People

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    After being jailed by the Macoutes for complaining about worker exploitation at the baseball factory where he worked, a Haitian man and his family attempts to escape to the United States. On the boat, they are forced into the ocean at gunpoint far fr...

    Boat People