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- DirectorDeepa MehtaStarsSuraj SharmaIshan GandhiEshan InamdarWhen his parents are deported, 12-year-old Kabir is left to run the family's motel.
- DirectorBen LewinFeaturing the voices of different generations of British immigrants themselves.
- DirectorAlexandra PelosiStarsAlexandra PelosiGhina Abul-KhoudoudHassan Abul-KhoudoudDocumentary about new United States immigrants spanning all fifty states.
- DirectorKrista SchlyerAy Mariposa tells a story of three characters in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas whose lives are upended by plans to build a US-Mexico border wall. As the director of the National Butterfly Center, Marianna Trevino Wright has become a leader of wall resistance in the Valley, a position that has resulted in violent threats from pro-wall factions and an emotional odyssey as she tries to navigate the ever-shifting sands of border policy. Zulema Hernandez, a life-long migrant worker, immigrant and great grandmother, has been a dedicated advocate for all migrants, both wild and human-kind. Meanwhile the butterfly, la mariposa, fights its own daily battle for survival in a landscape where more than 95 percent of its habitat is long gone and much of what remains lies directly in the path of the wall. Ay Mariposa documents each characters' fierce commitment to home, justice, wild beauty and the future of the US-Mexico borderlands.
- DirectorAaron MaurerInvisible Valley weaves together the disparate stories of undocumented farm workers, wealthy snowbirds, and music festival-goers over the course of a year in California's Coachella Valley.
- DirectorTheo RigbyWaking Dream weaves together the stories of undocumented young people as they sit in limbo between deportation and a path to citizenship.
- DirectorDiego HallivisStarsJorge Lendeborg Jr.Jenna OrtegaAllen MaldonadoAfter a governor issues an executive order to arrest the children of undocumented immigrants, the newly detained youth are offered an opportunity to have their charges dropped by volunteering to provide care to the elderly.
- CreatorRonan BennettStarsAshley WaltersKanoJasmine JobsonTwo London drug dealers ply their lucrative trade at a public housing estate in East London.
- DirectorAngel Manuel SotoStarsXolo MaridueñaBruna MarquezineBecky GAn alien scarab chooses Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the recent college graduate with a suit of armor that's capable of extraordinary powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero known as Blue Beetle.
- DirectorHetty Naaijkens-Retel HelmrichWhen Indonesia became independent after WW II, many Indonesian Dutchmen repatriated to the Netherlands. They were temporarily put up in contract pensions. They did not really feel welcome.
- CreatorAndrew AnastasiosMatt CameronAndrew KnightStarsGuy PearceAaron PedersenRoy BillingJack is engaged to find a missing person, only to be later framed for his murder. Jack is quickly caught up in a complex web of powerful vested interests that stretches from his home town of Fitzroy to a remote village in the Philippines.
- StarsSteffan RhodriMali HarriesSophie MelvilleFollows the Driscolls, an ordinary family caught in between power struggles that forces them to leave the country they call home.
- DirectorAlejandro MonteverdeStarsCristiana Dell'AnnaJohn LithgowDavid MorseAfter witnessing disease and poverty in the slums of New York, Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini embarks on a daring journey to persuade the hostile mayor to provide housing and healthcare for hundreds of orphaned children.
- StarsGiancarlo EspositoZackary MomohPaula MalcomsonFollows a taxi driver whose life is turned upside down when he agrees to pick-up a Zimbabwean gangster mostly known for exploiting undocumented immigrants at the U.S. southern ports.
- DirectorÉlie ChouraquiStarsJJ FeildSaïd TaghmaouiMaria PapasA tale of friendship between two men, one Jewish and the other Arab, as the country of Israel is being created.
- DirectorNicolas Jack DaviesStarsBunny LeeKing Edwards the GiantDerrick MorganThe legendary London record label Trojan Records played a leading role in the musical conquest of Great Britain by Jamaican music styles like Ska, Reggae, and Rocksteady.