Entries
Limbo (2020)
November 15, 2021A gently emotional story about a group of asylum seekers awaiting for their results on a fictional remote Scottish island. Among them is Omar, a… Read more
Stranger in paradise (2016)
November 15, 2021Directed by Guido Hendrikx, Stranger in Paradise is a mixture of fiction and documentary that depicts an actor in a classroom of a detention center… Read more
Minari (2020)
November 15, 2021MINARI by Lee Isaac Chung, USA 2020: A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the… Read more
Migration and the Culture of Anguish
April 7, 2016By Sumita Chakravarty Lotte’s mother: How did you know it was me? Nejat Aksu: You are the saddest person here. In his film, The Edge… Read more
Mediterranea (2015)
March 30, 2016MEDITERRANEA by Jonas Carpignano, USA 2015: Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and… Read more
Entre Nos (2010)
December 15, 2015“Entre Nos is a bio/true story about a woman’s struggle to survive in New York City with her two children after being abandoned by her… Read more
Review of In America (2002)
December 15, 2015“”In America” is not literally autobiographical (the real Frankie was Sheridan’s brother, who died at 10), but it is intensely personal. It’s not the typical… Read more
I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (2007)
October 20, 2015Forest fires burn in Sumatra; a smoke covers Kuala Lumpur. Grifters beat an immigrant day laborer and leave him on the streets. Rawang, a young… Read more
Interactive learning resource: Language of Belonging (2010)
October 20, 2015Language of Belonging is a multi-platform education resource based on the ground breaking Indigenous animation Wadu Matyidi. Designed specifically for Primary-aged students, this diverse learning program explores… Read more
List of Films on Migration
October 19, 2015LIST OF FILMS ON MIGRATION The Undocumented In the middle Farmingville I learn America The State of Arizona Your day is my Night Eternity and… Read more
Top 10 Films on Immigration
October 19, 2015Immigration is one of the more complicated issues facing Americans these days and sadly we don’t see or hear about it very often. Below is… Read more
Lilja 4-ever (2002)
March 17, 2015Lilja 4-ever (2002)Lilja 4-ever is a 2002 Swedish-Danish drama film directed by Lukas Moodysson. Lilja 4-ever is an unremittingly brutal and realistic story of the… Read more
No Fear, No Die (1990)
March 17, 2015No Fear, No Die (1990) Working from a script co-authored by Denis and Jean-Pol Fargeau, No Fear, No Die directly confronts the personal politics of… Read more
Black Girl (1966)
March 17, 2015Black Girl (1966) “Black Girl is a 1966 film by the Senegalese writer and director Ousmane Sembène, starring Mbissine Thérèse Diop. Its original French title… Read more
Death by Hanging (1968)
March 17, 2015A clinically presented series of stark white, unembellished placards illustrates the sobering statistical data for the overwhelming public sentiment against the abolition of the death… Read more
The Silence of Lorna (2008)
March 17, 2015The Silence of Lorna (2008) Sokol and Lorna, two Albanian emigrants in Belgium, dream of leaving their dreary jobs to set up a snack bar.… Read more
La promesse (1996)
March 17, 2015La promesse is the breakthrough feature from Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, who would go on to become a force in world filmmaking. The brothers brought… Read more
The Undocumented (2013)
March 17, 2015The Undocumented (2013) Marcos Hernandez lives and works in Chicago. He came to the United States from Mexico, after a life-threatening border crossing through the… Read more
Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
February 13, 2015Stranger Than Paradise (1984) Rootless Hungarian immigrant Willie (John Lurie), his pal Eddie (Richard Edson), and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva (Eszter Balint) always manage to… Read more
The House of Sand and Fog (2003)
February 13, 2015The House of Sand and Fog (2003) Academy Award winners Ben Kingsley (Gandhi) and Jennifer Connelly (A Beautiful Mind) deliver stunning performances as two strangers… Read more
The Godfather Part II (1974)
February 13, 2015The Godfather Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola took some of the deep background from the life of Mafia chief Vito Corleone–the patriarch of Mario… Read more
Fast Food Nation (2006)
February 13, 2015Fast Food Nation (2006) Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear)-a marketing executive at Mickey’s Fast Food Restaurant chain, home of “The Big One”-has a problem. Contaminated meat… Read more
In Between Days (2007)
February 13, 2015In Between Days (2007) A quiet specimen of personal storytelling at its most exciting, In Between Days intimately portrays the joys and risks of first love and… Read more
Man Push Cart (2005)
February 13, 2015Man Push Cart (2005) Every night while the city sleeps, Ahmad, a former rock star in his native Pakistan, drags his heavy cart along the… Read more