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...

Women from Turkey and Mecklenburg are working together side-by-side at a fish-processing factory in ...
Rotem Genossar, a teacher at the Bialik-Rogozin campus in south Tel Aviv, founds a running group for...

Follows Vietnamese migrant workers, to examine the reasons behind their numerous escapes and to trac...

Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally...

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...

Summer unveils a new blueberry season in northern Canada. The fields are covered in blue and workers...

In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymu...

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

Explores the little-known history and humanity of the unsung Filipino nurses risking their lives on ...
A documentary about migrants in the Netherlands, living, working, and dreaming of home.

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

In southern Italy, stateless migrants pick the tomatoes the rest of the world will taste. But what a...
When Umi and Dwipa left Indonesia to work in an Ontario greenhouse as part of Canada's Temporary For...

This is a story about youth with music. It all happens at the Dandelion School, Beijing’s first midd...

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

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