Immigration

  • Europa Passage

    Europa Passage

    2022

    1h.29min

    16+

    A movie about people who have no chance but still try to make the best of it. And about the price they have to pay for it.


  • After the Fire

    After the Fire

    2023

    1h.38min

    12

    Following the death of her younger brother during a police intervention, Malika embarks on a legal battle to ensure a trial takes place.


  • Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.

    Mother, I Am Suffocating. This Is My Last Film About You.

    2019

    1h.16min

    16+

    A visually stunning journey through love, loss and legacy, as directed by the acclaimed Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese.


  • The Smoothness of Our Teeth

    The Smoothness of Our Teeth

    2021

    28min

    12

    A family visit and a broken tooth raises universal questions about identity, origins and life choices.


  • Good Life Deal

    Good Life Deal

    2022

    1h.13min

    16+

    Gerhard goes all in: He leaves his previous life behind for the Thai girl Amy. Romance and thriller begin to intertwine.


  • Living Together

    Living Together

    2022

    1h.30min

    16+

    An integration course teaches people the finer points of Viennese culture in Chinese, Arabic, Russian and German.


  • Duologue

    Duologue

    2016

    4min

    0 FSK

    The German Angst of the unknown - a reluctant dialogue.


  • Here and Now

    Here and Now

    2018

    1h.27min

    16+

    Andrei, a Russian speaking immigrant living in Ashdod, is balancing work, bills, taking care of his kid sister Chris, and rehearsing for a concert.


  • Prima Mallorca

    Prima Mallorca

    2019

    1h.30min

    16+

    A new start to a better life? Forty Germans on welfare fly to Mallorca to do internships.


  • Soldier Ahmet

    Soldier Ahmet

    2021

    1h.16min

    16+

    Ahmet, a champion boxer and professional soldier, starts taking acting lessons. On stage he comes face to face with his own internal battles.


  • My Body

    My Body

    2021

    1h.20min

    12 FSK

    This documentary-narrative film hybrid tells the story of two Sicilian underdogs in strong, neorealistic Cinemascope images.


  • Rent Boys

    Rent Boys

    2011

    1h.23min

    12 FSK

    This authentic documentary follows male sex workers from Bahnhof Zoo in Berlin as they work, shedding light on the issue of male prostitution.


  • The Forbidden Strings

    The Forbidden Strings

    2019

    1h.22min

    16+

    They risk it all: the rock band Arikain, formed by Afghans living in Iran, dreams of performing on a stage one day.


  • The Silhouettes

    The Silhouettes

    2020

    1h.20min

    16+

    Taghi, an Afghan refugees living in Iran, faces the choice of staying in a country where he is not welcome or returning to a country he barely knows.


  • Hotel Belgrad

    Hotel Belgrad

    1998

    14min

    16+

    A couple makes love in a hotel. She lives in Switzerland, he lives in Belgrad. What’s been destroyed by war will be reborn in this hotel room.


  • Complicity

    Complicity

    2018

    1h.56min

    16+

    An illegal immigrant from China is desperate for work in Japan. He pretends to be someone else to get a job at a traditional soba restaurant.


  • Learning to Milk a Cow

    Learning to Milk a Cow

    2016

    1h.4min

    16+

    At the age of 19, Raja was deported to Nazi Germany and was forced to do labor on a Bavarian farm. This documentary is her story.


  • What You Don't Know About Me

    What You Don't Know About Me

    2019

    1h.56min

    16+

    How well can you know your partner? Patricia and Ikendu have a happy relationship until Ikendu's surprise arrest shatters it.


  • I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth

    I Am Truly a Drop of Sun on Earth

    2017

    1h.0min

    16+

    After a night in jail, April returns to the basement of the luxury hotel where she, along with other women, works as a sex worker.


  • Andy Warhol

    Andy Warhol

    1987

    1h.15min

    16+

    Consumption, glamour, disasters and mass media - the art of Andy Warhol is a reflection of America. Kim Evans portrays Warhol's controversial appearance ...


  • Waithira

    Waithira

    2017

    1h.11min

    12

    Eva Njoki Munyiri left her birth country, Kenya, aged 14 and has lived in 3 different continents since then. Now she reconciles with her roots.


  • School of Babel

    School of Babel

    2013

    1h.31min

    16+

    For a year, Julie Bertuccelli filmed a group of students from all over the world who are all taking the same course to learn French.


  • The Yard

    The Yard

    2016

    1h.18min

    0

    A scandal forces literary critic Anders to change careers.


  • Dear John

    Dear John

    2015

    42min

    16+

    A single decision can change the rest of your life - a film about what could have been.


  • Global Family

    Global Family

    2018

    1h.31min

    0 FSK

    A transnational family drama in which four generations of a refugee family pursue their own dreams of family, home and future.


  • Language Is a Love Story

    Language Is a Love Story

    2019

    1h.30min

    16+

    Ms. Louiseau is a dedicated French teacher at a language school in Montréal for adult immigrants. The names of her students* are as varied as her stories. Since ...


  • Warrior Father King

    Warrior Father King

    2015

    1h.22min

    16 FSK

    Ismail, Kamil and Carlos have fought hard for their place in German society – professional mixed martial artists.


  • What Will People Say

    What Will People Say

    2017

    1h.42min

    12 FSK

    Norwegian-Pakistani teen Nisha is torn between two worlds until the worlds colide.


  • The Most Beautiful Country in the World

    The Most Beautiful Country in the World

    2018

    1h.41min

    16+

    A semi-documentary that follows a group of young migrants in Austria as they negotiate the maze of administrative procedures.


  • Plato's Academy

    Plato's Academy

    2009

    1h.43min

    0 FSK

    Stavros, a shopkeeper in the Akadimia Platonos district in Athens, spends his life complaining about foreigners and hanging out in front of his shop with ...


  • Fraulein

    Fraulein

    2006

    1h.21min

    6 FSK

    An intimate look at three headstrong women who come from different parts of a country that no longer exists.


  • Lemonade

    Lemonade

    2018

    1h.28min

    16+

    A film about the harsh reality behind the dreams of emigrants who are confronted with abuse of power.


  • The Other Side of Hope

    The Other Side of Hope

    2017

    1h.40min

    6 FSK

    In Helsinki, two destinies intersect in the midst of racism and loss: Cohesion and humanity can overcome everything.


  • The Cut

    The Cut

    2013

    2h.18min

    12 FSK

    Heartbreaking drama about the Armenian genocide at the beginning of the 20th century.


  • Los Ángeles

    Los Ángeles

    2014

    1h.37min

    12 FSK

    17-year-old Mateo dreams of Los Angeles. He wants to work there and support his family in their small Zapotec village in southern Mexico. The only way ...


  • Calabria

    Calabria

    2016

    1h.57min

    16+

    A road movie in a hearse. After the death of an Italian man, two undertakers, Jovan and José - themselves emigrants - drive the body to Italy.


  • Plot 35

    Plot 35

    2017

    1h.7min

    12 FSK

    Director Eric Caravaca tells the story of his sister, whose existence was hushed up.


  • Land of My Children

    Land of My Children

    2018

    1h.28min

    0 FSK

    Darío traces his tortuous path from the land of his fathers to the land of his children - a film about being - and becoming - German.


  • Omulaule Means Black

    Omulaule Means Black

    2003

    1h.5min

    0 FSK

    The largely unknown story of the GDR contract workers from Namibia.


  • Mikel

    Mikel

    2017

    31min

    16+

    A slice of the live of the undocumented migrant Mikel, working odd jobs in Berlin to survive.


  • My Name Is Not Ali

    My Name Is Not Ali

    2011

    1h.32min

    16+

    A portrait of El Hedi ben Salem, the actor of the Arab guest worker Ali from Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film "Ali – Fear Eats The Soul".


  • When I Dance

    When I Dance

    2016

    1h.7min

    16+

    In Daniela Lucatos docu WHEN I DANCE, four dancers from Israel, Spain and Italy attempt to interpret the stories of refugees.


  • Viacrucis Migrante – Migrant Crossing

    Viacrucis Migrante – Migrant Crossing

    2015

    1h.2min

    0 FSK

    The documentary VIACRUCIS MIGRANTE – MIGRANT CROSSING by Hauke Lorenz gives people a voice who are on the arduous path to "the promised Land".


  • Monsieur Lazhar

    Monsieur Lazhar

    2011

    1h.34min

    12 FSK

    Simon discovers that a teacher has hung herself in the classroom. Bachir Lazhar, 55, Algerian immigrant is the substitute teacher. The class goes through ...


  • Exit Right

    Exit Right

    2015

    3min

    12

    Look away or intervene? When a man is victim of unfounded abuse in a packed bus, there is only one passenger who doesn't ignore the situation like everyone ...


  • Chaja & Mimi

    Chaja & Mimi

    2009

    10min

    16+

    Chaja Florentin and Mimi Frons have been best friends for 83 years. Born and raised in Berlin, they fled to Palestine with their families in 1934 to escape ...


  • Family Life

    Family Life

    2017

    1h.22min

    16+

    A home in the German countryside, clean and proper. Against this bucolic setting a grandmother talks about the Siberian labor camps and starts to cry.


  • Jeronimo

    Jeronimo

    2019

    1h.33min

    16+

    This documentary focuses on a lesser known part of Cuban history: the Korean Cuban community.


  • Le Marché d'Aligre

    Le Marché d'Aligre

    2017

    8min

    16+

    The 12th arrondissement in Paris is home to the Marché d'Aligre - a street market with over forty fruit and vegetable stands. A unique part of Paris!


  • Na Sdorowje! Babuschka!

    Na Sdorowje! Babuschka!

    2011

    22min

    16+

    Surprisingly, her Russian relatives arrive on Tatyana's birthday.


  • Nirwana

    Nirwana

    2013

    52min

    16+

    Simon Dolensky's graduation film from the International Film School Cologne was nominated for the First Steps Award.


  • Can't Be Silent

    Can't Be Silent

    2013

    1h.22min

    0 FSK

    The band “The Refugees” consists of refugees between the stage and the asylum seekers' home. They have arrived and yet are still on the run. A docu about ...


  • Shun Li and the Poet

    Shun Li and the Poet

    2010

    1h.37min

    6 FSK

    Chinesische immigrant Shun Li feels lost in Venice. Then she befriends Bepi, an immigrant from eastern Europe, who over the years has learned the ropes ...


  • West Is West

    West Is West

    2010

    1h.38min

    6 FSK

    The British culture clash comedy is the follow up to the massive “East is eas”. Even the soundtrack, the Hindi film music are as delightful like the clash ...


  • Love

    Love

    2006

    1h.31min

    18 FSK

    As Yugoslavia disappeared a man, cover name “Uncle Vanja”, goes to New York to works as a contract killer. In the Big Apple, he hopes to meet his great ...


  • Schnitzel Paradise

    Schnitzel Paradise

    2005

    1h.22min

    6 FSK

    Cooking is warfare! That's how it is in this irreverent culture clash comedy. Straight A student Nordip would rather wash dishes than study medicine.


  • Haebangchon - Chapter 1

    Haebangchon - Chapter 1

    2015

    1h.42min

    16+

    A crime drama set in the multicultural, expat district of the same name in Seoul, South Korea.