Migrant Worker Movies

Nia from the Philippines works as a family maid in Taiwan. She prefers to stay in her private room, where a door separates her from her employers,...

“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins;...

Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay...

A train is heading for Germany - a train carrying migrant workers. Trains like this have come countless times since the late 1950s, from Italy,...

This is a story about youth with music. It all happens at the Dandelion School, Beijing’s first middle school specifically established for the...

The beautiful and spoilt Yerusalem had a wonderful life in Paris as the wife of the Eritrean Ambassador. Due to political changes, her husband is...

The film reflects the life of the Macedonian emigrants and migrant workers in Australia. With their going away in far away countries and living...

In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to...

1963, in a hotel room in Berlin. Mahmut Güzel, a migrant worker, is waiting to return to Turkey. But then Thilo Schmidt from the employment...

Every season, tens of thousands of migrant farmworkers converge on small communities like Immokalee, Florida where they plant and harvest the food...

A documentary about migrants in the Netherlands, living, working, and dreaming of home.

Filmed on the ground in 1987, an urgent piece of third-cinema agitprop that captures the exact moment the Philippines began exporting its own people...

This film follows the lives of undocumented Vietnamese workers in Taiwan doing odd jobs to survive, after having been forced to flee their employers...

A Bengali migrant worker, Bimal, and his Chinese migrant friend, Han Ming, strike the lottery with their shared bet. The duo encounter deceit,...

In southern Italy, stateless migrants pick the tomatoes the rest of the world will taste. But what about these workers’ European dreams? Will...

Follows Vietnamese migrant workers, to examine the reasons behind their numerous escapes and to trace the family situations of those who were...

YAYA is a story about a filmmaker who explores the complex relationship between his family and the domestic worker who spent decades away from her...

In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return...