Hang Sou and his family, preliterate tribal farmers, await resettlement in a refugee camp in Thailand after fleeing their war-consumed native Laos. "Becoming American" records their odyssey as they travel to and resettle in the United States. As they face nine months of intense culture shock, prejudice, and gradual adaptation to their new home in Seattle, the family provides a rare insight into refugee resettlement and cultural diversity issues.

Between 1990 and 1993, at a time when rap was not yet on the radio in France, Olivier Cachin hosted ...

The Kurdish Iraqi poet and actor Zeravan Khalil travels with his dog through an Alpine gorge after f...

An investigation of Edward Brezinski, an ambitious, charismatic Lower East Side painter hell-bent on...

Rosa is a Mexican woman who, at the age of 17, migrated illegally to Austin, Texas. Some years later...

"Take my love" is a documentary film about "Las Patronas", a group of women who daily cook, pack and...

Using diary excerpts, photographs and memories from companions, the film paints the portrait of the ...

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

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

An estimated 12 million people live in refugee camps worldwide and only 0.1% are resettled, repatria...

It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Ma...

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and...

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

"From Mexico to Vietnam: A Chicano Story" is an inspiring documentary that chronicles the life of Je...

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...

When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ig...

A documentary that follows Anya, a woman residing in Ukraine during the early stages of the war, who...