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.

Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowl...

Walt is a lonely convenience store clerk who has fallen in love with a Mexican migrant worker named ...

Jess Bhamra, the daughter of a strict Indian couple in London, is not permitted to play organized so...

New York layabout Willie forms an unexpected bond with his young Hungarian cousin Eva when she pays ...

Two trouble-causing brothers, who in the second generation after World War II Germany live, are in t...

Gabriel, Bobby and Costa are old friends from Altona, a multicultural hood in Hamburg. Just out of p...

Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-doo...

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

In the gritty streets of Guatemala City, "BBOY for LIFE" intertwines the vibrant world of breakdanci...

Caye is a young prostitute whose family is unaware of her profession. She meets her striking Dominic...

In 1980, the black Falashas in Ethiopia are recognised as genuine Jews and are secretly carried to I...

In Manhattan’s Upper West Side, rival gangs of Polish-Americans and newly arrived Puerto Ricans clas...

Donya, a lonely Afghan refugee and former translator, spends her twenties drifting through a meager ...

A young man upsets his Punjabi family when he falls in love with an Irish schoolteacher.

A group of teenagers living in a housing project in the outskirts of Paris rehearse a scene from Mar...

Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her ...

Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board...

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.

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