Return Home (1992)

Retrato de la vida de Uxbal: padre abnegado e hijo desamparado. Intermediario de la sombra. Próximo a los desaparecidos. Atraído por los fantasmas. Sensible a los espíritus. Superviviente en el corazón de una Barcelona invisible. Sintiendo que la muerte le ronda, intenta encontrar la paz, proteger a sus hijos, salvarse a sí mismo. La historia de Uxbal es sencilla y compleja, al igual que nuestras vidas de hoy.

Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Kaji, un japonés pacifista, trata de librarse del servicio militar aceptando un trabajo como supervisor laboral en las minas de la Manchuria ocupada. Kaji se dedica a mejorar las pésimas condiciones de vida de los prisioneros, pero sus esfuerzos son despreciados por el jefe del campo de concentración. Un día, el odio acumulado estalla y tiene terribles consecuencias.

Lauren Southern investigates what is really happening at Europe’s borders. From interviews with human traffickers in Morocco to secret recordings of illegal NGO activity in Greece, Borderless will blow the European Border Crisis wide open.

Una joven mexicana en busca del sueño americano cruza la frontera a Estados Unidos de manera ilegal y vive una “pesadilla americana”.

Peter, un desplazado de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, salta de un buque en el puerto de Nueva York cuando es deportado. Su intención es encontrar a un ex soldado llamado Tom a quien ayudó durante la guerra y poder demostrar su entrada legal en los Estados Unidos.

Cabir believes he killed a man while fleeing the police in the Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian border area. His feelings of guilt pursue him like a ghost. But is his victim actually the husband of Aliyes, the woman Cabir takes in, hiding, protecting him? Atmospherically dense, Turkish love drama about a refugee from Syria.

Mysterious, sublime and elegiac, director Yang Chao’s odyssey blends breathtaking images with fantasy, poetry and history to create a complex magical universe. From the Shanghai metropolis to the snow-capped Tibet mountain, Gao Chun steers his cargo up the Yangtze, a river that has nurtured a centuries-old civilization. He comes across An Lu, a beautiful woman who appears in a different identity at every port recorded by a poetry book. Longing for her company, he realizes she gradually turns younger as he journeys upstream. He starts to wonder whether An Lu is supernatural or he is traveling not only in space but also in time. After passing a pagoda that reverberates Buddha’s voice, a flooded town reappeared elsewhere, the grandiose Three Gorges Dam and many other places where lives have been transformed, he finally arrives at the start of the Yangtze, where he unveils the secret of his past and An Lu.

Rosa y Enrique huyen de su remoto pueblo maya después de la muerte de sus padres a manos de las tropas del ejército, y salen para "el norte" (Estados Unidos) en busca de una vida mejor y más segura.

A story about a New York Chinatown cab driver who falls for college student.

When a mysterious fog surrounds the boundaries of California, there is a communication breakdown and all the Mexicans disappear, affecting the economy and the state stops working missing the Mexican workers and dwellers.

An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution and today in decline and struggling to survive and retain its identity, soul and values – all of which were dramatically challenged when four of the town’s white, star football players were charged in the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant named Luis Ramirez. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Turnley’s most personal work, SHENANDOAH creates a deeply felt portrait of a working class community, and the American Dream on trial.

This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.

At the beginning of the 20th century, a German household attempts to stay isolated from their new surroundings, in the south of Brazil. Their fear, however, sets the way for conflict.

Love, motherhood and a musical career strike dissonant chords in this dark tale of a young Russian woman who tries to keep her balance among wealthy French expats in New York.

An intelligent and affecting drama that follows lives of three couples living in three worldly cities, Sway reflects on the excitements and struggles of immigrant experience in the age of globalization when individuals have become more mobile but also more rootless than ever. In Paris, Arthur tries to convince his girlfriend to return to Asia together with him before his visa expires. In Bangkok, June ponders her future with husband Palm in America. And in Los Angeles, Amanda tries to fit into the family of a Japanese widower still haunted by their loss.

The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.

Over five thousand people illegally cross the border each day. There are areas where crime is at its highest, where criminals prey upon these defenseless groups. An elite task force is put together with high expectations of solving this problem that is plaguing our border

From acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Meng (The Piano in a Factory), this Chinese remake of Giuseppe Tornatore’s (Cinema Paradiso) Everybody's Fine and its American version starring Robert De Niro is an emotionally stirring drama. The story follows a widower’s visits to his four adult children, who lead distinctly different lives in four rapidly changing Chinese cities. It offers an intimate look at struggles of the young generation in a society transitioning from a collective past to a materialist present.

The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who carry out seasonal work in the highly-developed republic of Slovenia. Far from home, problems arise for the men - with their families, alcohol, the local population's derision and the "real Slovenian workers".

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daughters. Trouble starts when the girls grow up and the family decides to emigrate to Sweden. When they end up living in a caravan outside Hässleholm, all their expectations are dashed.