A train is heading for Germany - a train carrying migrant workers. Trains like this have come countless times since the late 1950s, from Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, Spain and Portugal, and they have brought with them, along with the people they carried, the dreams and hopes of these people for a better life and better work opportunities. In Germany, they were called guest workers.

YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the d...
Interviews and images from the work and leisure time of guest workers in the Federal Republic are co...

Every year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thank...

This film was shot between 2014 and 2019 in the town of Zhili, a district of Huzhou City in Zhejiang...
Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for...

This deeply human documentary examines the subject of environmental destruction, highlighting the im...

This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, ...

Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on ...

This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with...

Soft boys by day, kings by night. The film follows a group of young Bulgarian Roma who come to Vienn...

Folding towels, straightening out sheets, taking bathrobes out of the dryer, stripping beds, cleanin...

Every season, tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee,...

I AM GOLDEN KAREN is a coming-of-age story of Thaawa, a Karen refugee in search of his identity as a...

In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymu...
Three women share their experience of navigating the app-world in the metro city. The sharings revea...

Tragic circumstances bring together the wife and the mother of two migrant workers - one from the ea...
When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary For...