Migrant Worker Movies

A Haitian migrant struggles to bring his son to Chile from their homeland. He works as a waiter in a restaurant where he must endure the petulance of...

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...

Farewell Ferris Wheel explores how the U.S. Carnival industry fights to keep itself alive by legally employing Mexican migrant workers with the...

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

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

A documentary follows the real-life journey of Rhose, a Filipino migrant worker who leaves her home country to seek employment abroad.

Far from his village and family, a man sells fish in a bustling market, returning home only a few times a year to his wife and daughter. Like his...

Untold stories of migrant workers’ hardships and sacrifices, the very people who built the lavish and luxurious Singapore we know, are conveyed...

This short documentary features poet N Rengarajan, a migrant worker from Pudukkottai, India who sustains a practice of poetry as a way of life while...

From the Sahara to Mellila, witnesses talk about how they narrowly escaped death, unlike their companions - all migrants who were literally and...

Folding towels, straightening out sheets, taking bathrobes out of the dryer, stripping beds, cleaning up vomit. Fluffing pillows—making a dent...

Migranta tells the stories of Vicky, Betty and Lety, (three mothers who have come to Canada from Mexico as part of the federal government’s...

In a city that never stops expanding, four voices from different corners of India reveal the quiet weight of migration, homesickness, and survival....

Tragic circumstances bring together the wife and the mother of two migrant workers - one from the east, the other from west Nepal.

Far West Nepal, where maximum labour migration to Bombay happens, is reeling under the impact of an HIV micro epidemic. This documentary is an in...