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.

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

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

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kish...

Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teen...

After a shipwreck, a Syrian girl arrives alone on a Sicilian island. A doctor sets out to find her o...

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daugh...

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through...

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

When a clever, carefree gangster is recruited to help an overseas crime lord take down a rival, he i...

Raul finally gets the courage to ask his co-worker, Rosa out on a date. When the day arrives, Raul i...

Having moved to Paris for university, Leevi returns to his native Finland for the summer to help his...

Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life,...

The story of Usnavi, a bodega owner who has mixed feelings about closing his store and retiring to t...

Primo and Secondo, two immigrant brothers, pin their hopes on a banquet honoring Louis Prima to save...

Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summe...

Aitziber’s father travels to the city daily in order to prevent his childhood home from demolition. ...

Behrani, an Iranian immigrant buys a California bungalow, thinking he can fix it up, sell it again, ...