Migrant Worker Movies

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...

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

Inside Qatar’s labor camps, African and Asian migrant workers building the facilities of the 2022 World Cup compete in a football tournament of...

“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;...

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...

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...

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

This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their...

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

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,...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Every year, a Kurdish family leaves Gaziantep (Anatolia) to work on the land near Ankara. This thankless life of seasonal labor turns upside down...