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Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A Chinese-American family’s search for their roots leads them to the Mississippi Delta, where they stumble upon surprising family revelations and uncover the racially complex history of the Chinese in the segregated South. FAR EAST DEEP SOUTH presents a personal and eye-opening perspective on race, immigration, and American identity. It sheds light on the history of Chinese immigrants living in the American South during the late 1800s to mid-1900s...
2) Amira & Sam
Publisher
Drafthouse Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
To help adjust to coming home from war, Sam (Martin Starr, Silicon Valley), takes a stab at stand-up comedy. Amira has fled Iraq and the more time they spend together, the harder it is for them to combat their feelings for one another.
Publisher
Felix Media
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
As China prepares to take control of Hong Kong in 1997, a Hong Kong Chinese family disperses around the world. Mr and Mrs Chan (Edwin Pang and Cecilia Fong Sing Lee), and two teenage sons, follow their second daughter Bing (Annie Yip) to a large and sterile house in the suburbs of a major Australian city. Bing has been in Australia for seven years, but the loneliness has made her nervous and bitter. Her older sister Yen (Annette Shun Wah) lives in...
Publisher
Filmhub, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Persian
Description
After five years of studying in Paris, Arash has struggled to adapt to life in France and has decided to return to Iran. In the hope of changing his mind, his two friends take him on one last trip across France. Official Selection at the **BFI London Film Festival**. *"Goormaghtigh reinvigorates the summertime road-trip genre with this lyrical, keenly observed, acutely political comedy." - Richard Brody, **New Yorker***
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After the Kosovo war devastates a young couple’s homeland and their dreams for a normal life, they set out unexpectedly from the Balkans, along a wild journey to rebuild their lives anew in America. Arriving in California amidst the peak of a housing boom that would soon burst, the film reveals their trials and tribulations over five years of turbulent economic, political and personal tides to reveal an unorthodox depiction of the American immigrant...
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Español
Description
THE RIGHT GIRLS is a documentary film which follows three young transgender women who trek across Mexico as part of the high-profile migrant caravan of 2018. Teaming up in southern Mexico with the goal of reaching the U.S. border, the girls find themselves hitching rides and jumping trucks, anything to complete the long journey north. Their LGBTQ status continues to make them targets. Adding to their struggle to find food is the constant challenge...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
An immigrant story with a (glazed) twist, THE DONUT KING follows the journey of Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy, who arrived in California in the 1970s and, through a mixture of diligence and luck, built a multi-million dollar donut empire up and down the West Coast. After Ngoy escaped the brutal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, he eventually was able to start his first donut shop in Orange County, California, and his Christy’s Doughnuts became a rapidly expanding...
Publisher
Giant Pictures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
During one of the most uncertain times in United States history, filmmakers Rae Ceretto and Kelly Scott follow one woman’s journey as she searches for protection for her and kids. SEEKING ASYLUM bears witness to the endless deterrents migrants face when petitioning for asylum in the United States and examines why asylum is an integral part of the American Dream.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the rise of far-right extremism and violence in Germany. How extremists have carried out terror plots and attacks on Jews and migrants, infiltrated the security services, and what authorities are doing to confront the growing problem.
11) African Exodus
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Seeking safety and asylum, some 60,000 Africans have fled to Israel over the past decade and a half. The country, founded as a haven for persecuted Jews in the aftermath of the Holocaust, has no policy, infrastructure or political will to handle this wave of migrants. AFRICAN EXODUS explores Israel's other refugee crisis.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this photographic picture book, the authors record and transcribe the words of displaced children, raising up their voices-who they are, where they came from, and the many different reasons that they had to leave their home country"--
15) Through fences
Author
Publisher
Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Collection of short comics about life near the US-Mexico border. Touches on issues of immigration, detainment, policing, sexuality, racism, and violence"--
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