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Publisher
Humanity Rising
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Set in the heart of America’s bible belt, _Welcome To Shelbyville_ follows a small Southern town as they grapple with rapid demographic change and issues of immigrant integration. Shot between the 2008 Presidential election and spring 2009, the film captures the complexity of the African American, Latino, white and Somali subjects as their lives intertwine against the backdrop of a crumbling economy and a promising new Administration.
Publisher
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
This intimate and personal documentary follows two women from Ciudad Juárez as they cross the U.S.-Mexico border legally to give birth in Texas, putting their hearts and bodies on the line as they confront harassment at the hands of U.S. border officials. One million people legally cross the U.S.-Mexico border every day in both directions. Among them are women who cross for the purposes of childbirth. With the threat of obstetrical violence in Mexican...
Publisher
Frederick Wiseman (Zipporah)
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City is one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse communities in the United States and the world. There are immigrants from every country in South America, Mexico, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and China. The people who live in Jackson Heights, in their cultural, racial and ethnic diversity, are representative of the new wave of immigrants to America. The subject of this film is the daily life of...
Publisher
Feelsales
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Description
Indira, a Cuban actress, succeeded in fleeing to the USA but her emigration had its consequences on her family. In Santa Clara (Cuba) she left 11-year-old son Leandro and other members of her numerous family. Settled now in New Jersey, Indira struggles to adapt to cold weather, the different mentality and a completely new social system. As her "American Dream" turns to an "American Nightmare", her son Leandro is waiting in Santa Clara for her to settle...
45) Floating Life
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...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"In 2006, Shadid, an Arab-American raised in Oklahoma, was covering Israel's attack on Lebanon when he heard that an Israeli rocket had crashed into the house his great-grandfather built, his family's ancestral home. Not long after, Shadid (who had covered three wars in the Middle East) realized that he had lost his passion for a region that had lost its soul. He had seen too much violence and death; his career had destroyed his marriage. Seeking...
Publisher
MVD Entertainment Group
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
THE UNIVERSALITY OF IT ALL is a feature-length documentary that focuses on the topics of human migration and inequality. As intimate as it is informative, it explains the complexity of human migration by providing valuable data and information, but also by showing how it affects the reality of two friends and their day-to-day lives.
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Abd is a 24-year-old Syrian who took part in the early days of the 2011 revolution and now lives in Padova, Italy. Together with his German friend Max he is working on a film called UNWRITTEN LETTERS. As they work together on turning Abd’s reality in Italy into a film, Abd revisits his past and explores possible futures. The film documents the story of a young Syrian man arriving in Europe and the process of making sense of who he is through film...
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
Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Since the age of 4, Angy Rivera has lived in the United States with a secret that threatens to upend her life: She is undocumented. Angy arrived with her mother, fleeing violence, poverty, and civil war in their native Colombia. For 20 years they live in the shadows, struggling to stay afloat financially and avoid deportation while battling a complex and inequitable immigration system. DON'T TELL ANYONE is a phrase whispered often and branded deeply...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1981.
Language
English
Description
Herbert and Lotte Strauss fled Germany in 1943, escaping their near certain fate in a Nazi Concentration camp. The brave pair take us back through time, sharing the details of their trying and personal journey to the United States and the life that followed. Herbert and Lotte describe the urgency they felt to leave Germany for the sake of their daughter, who was born the year the couple immigrated to America. Still tormented by the loss of many family...
52) 19 Days
Publisher
National Film Board of Canada
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
This short documentary follows several refugee families during their first 19 days in Canada, as they navigate an unfamiliar terrain that has suddenly become their home. During the 19-day timeline established by the federal government, an initial assessment is done and refugees are assisted with everything from airport reception and orientation to referrals, documents, and counseling. 19 DAYS reveals the human side of the refugee resettlement process....
Publisher
Humanity Rising
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Set on the border of Thailand and Eastern Burma, CROSSING MIDNIGHT tells the story of a remarkable community of refugees from Burma working against incredible odds to help their own. Today, one million internally displaced persons are living in the jungles of Eastern Burma in the midst of on-going armed conflict. There, they live on the run, risking injury and death to forage for food to sustain their families. Over two million more have fled to the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Uriel the angel and Little Ash (short for Ashmedai) are the only two supernatural creatures in their shtetl (which is so tiny, it doesn't have a name other than Shetl). The angel and the demon have been studying together for centuries, but pogroms and the search for a new life have drawn all the young people from their village to America. When one of those young people, Essie, goes missing. Uriel and Little Ash set off to find her. Along the way...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The Caretaker and The Mayor are two powerful short films that explore contemporary immigration issues in the U.S. through intimate portraits of relationships between recent immigrants, and those who came to the U.S. generations ago. The Caretaker is a short film about the relationship between an immigrant caretaker and an elderly woman in the last months of her life. Joesy, a Fijian immigrant, works long hours providing live-in care for 95-year-old...
57) Ellis Island
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Inge is a feisty German mail-order bride who has come to Minnesota to marry Olaf, a young Norwegian immigrant farmer of few words. But in a post-WWI, anti-German climate, the local minister openly forbids the marriage. Inge and Olaf fall in love despite the town's disapproval. But when the town banker attempts to foreclose on the farm of his friend Frandsen, Olaf takes a stand.
59) The Pirogue
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Français
Description
In Moussa Toure’s powerful epic fiction film, a group of 30 men sail to Europe in a pirogue, facing the sea - and the possibility of never reaching their destination - in exchange for the myth of a better life in Europe. Baye Laye is the captain of a fishing pirogue. Like many of his Senegalese compatriots, he sometimes dreams of new horizons, where he can earn a better living for his family. When he is offered to lead one of the many pirogues that...
Author
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Six-and-a-half-year-old Peter reads, dreams, and plays with his friends. He is a nascent explorer, artist, philosopher, mystic, and scientist...And the actual world around him is a unique one in history: a community of leftist emigrés who have found refuge in Mexico from the Nazi and fascist regimes of Europe...But the emigrés long for home...slowly, Peter begins to comprehend that his world may be turned upside down"--
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