Ten-year-old Moises has just immigrated to California from Mexico. He doesn't speak English, but he's good at math, so he hopes to do well on his first math test in the USA. Using untrained child actors from public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, “Immersion” plunges its audience into the visceral experience of a child who cannot understand his teacher. The film puts a human face on the debate about the education of English Language Learners.

Aïssa is a Congolese immigrant in France. She says that she is under eighteen but the authorities co...

Even though Sami is safe in the United States with his 9-year-old daughter, Aya, the injures sustain...

The start of the Yugoslav civil war forces freshly graduated Mina to choose between being an obedien...

Set in Silicon Valley, the film tells the story of Abhi, a young immigrant techie who hopes to get f...

Phillip and Dieter nearly suffocate hiding their sexual identity in the face of puritanical small to...

A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grievi...

Sister Tse is brought to New York by a Snakehead, a human smuggler. Although she is indebted to the ...

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.

A bunch of friends are celebrating the birthday of one of them when they decide to play a joke on hi...

Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his ...

Lorna is a young Albanian woman in a marriage of convenience with Claudy, a heroin addict. Just as L...

In southern France, a Franco-Arabic shipyard worker along with his partner's daughter pursues his dr...

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.

A group of undocumented Mexican immigrants work long hours six days a week, and then savor their day...

A young Caribbean immigrant mother struggling to make ends meet at her dye factory job finds a relea...

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing...

Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening ra...

In the early 1990s, a European immigrant with a young family struggles to chase the American Dream, ...

Benjamin is meant to be a great doctor, he’s certain of it. But his first experience as a junior doc...

Deep in the lush river jungles of Argentina, Alvaro lives a solitary existence fishing and harvestin...