Nøgleord Immigration

Historien om familien Madrigal, en usædvanlig familie som bor i et magisk hus i Colombias bjerge. Og Mirabel, der opdager, at magien, der omslutter deres hjem, er truet.

Den aldrende enkemand Walt Kowalski holder sig helst for sig selv. Walt er vred på alt og alle, ikke mindst sine børn, der vil sende ham på plejehjem. Walt er heller ikke begejstret for sine asiatiske naboer. Men da teenageren Thao forsøger at stjæle Walt's elskede bil, bliver den gnavne gamle racist alligevel draget ind i sine naboers liv.

Håbet om endelig at komme væk fra fattigdom og væmmelige katte gør, at musefamilien Muskowitz beslutter sig til at emigrere til Amerika. Under rejsen over Atlanten, bliver lille Fievel skyllet overbord og flyder på må og få ind i New Yorks havn. Til sin forskrækkelse opdager den lille mus, at der lurer mange farer i det nye hjemland - og gaderne er ikke lavet af ost - som han havde fået fortalt! Et festligt, godmodigt og gribende eventyr! Et tegnet mesterværk for hele familien!

Producenterne bag "Amelie" har samlet nogle af verdens bedste filmfolk, som hver har lavet deres fortolkning af kærlighed i Paris. Det er der kommet i alt 18 små historier om kærlighed ud af, som foregår i hver deres kvarter i Paris, og som tager os med på den ultimative tur rundt i byernes by. Lige fra Walter Salles' rørende fortælling om en mors kærlighed, til Coen-brødrenes morsomme, fortabte turist på undergrundsstationen og horror-instruktøren Wes Cravens fortolkning af Pere Lachaise kirkegården...

I bedste 90'er Pulp Fiction-stil møder vi en række karakterer, hvis liv filtres ind i hinanden med mere eller mindre dødbringende konsekvenser. En mexicansk bryder, der aldrig tager sin maske af, en fyr med en hagekors tatovering i hele ansigtet, en desperat kvinde, der prøver at redde sin mand ved at købe et nyt organ på det sorte marked. Disse skæbner og flere til støder sammen i en ikke nærmere bestemt Los Angeles forstad i denne opfindsomme, vanvittige, blodige og voldsomme film.

Jess er af indisk familie, og hendes mor er stolt af at kunne lære sin datter om indisk madlavning, og hvad der ellers skal forberede hende på et forhåbentligt ikke for fjernt bryllup. Lidet aner mor, at Jess' billede på væggen af David Beckham ikke er romantisk, men nærer hendes drøm om at blive professionel fodboldspiller. Hendes boldøje opdages af Jules, som er spiller og introducerer hende til træneren Joe. Og mens karrieren sætter af, og mor koger, kommer romantikken alligevel ind i historien.

Xavier sidder i New York og skriver en roman... Der handler om en forfatter, der sidder i New York og skriver en roman, fordi hans engelske ekskone er blevet forelsket i en amerikaner og har taget deres to fælles børn med derover. Forfatteren bor i en Chinatown-lejlighed, der ejes af hans lesbiske venindes kone, som er taknemmelig over, at han har været sæddonor til deres barn, og så skal han i øvrigt giftes med en amerikansk kineser for at få opholdstilladelse og har genoptaget sin affære med sin franske ungdomskæreste, som bor hos ham, mens hun har forretninger i New York. Og det er kun en lille del af puslespillet, som udgør Xaviers liv, hvor både Playboy-modeller og tyske filosoffer dukker op på mere eller mindre bekvemme tidspunkter. Men sådan er livet.

Amerikansk western fra 2024, instrueret af Viggo Mortensen. En dansk mand immigrerer til USA og møder sin kone, men da han beslutter sig for at melde sig som soldat under den Amerikanske borgerkrig, bliver hendes liv vendt på hovedet.

En irsk familie bestående af Johnny og Sarah og deres to døtre kommer til New York i starten af 80'erne med håbet om en bedre fremtid. Men livet i USA er ikke så nemt. Filmen følger denne familie, mens de prøver at komme sig over tabet af deres 5-årige søn, og mens de prøver at finde sig til rette i deres nye liv, der ikke helt er faldet ud, som de håbede på... Jim Sheridan, der stod bag My Left Foot og In the Name of the Father, har instrueret.

Sol and Tião are born to different social backgrounds—she to a poor suburban family in Rio, and him to an even poorer family who raised cattle in West São Paulo State. They eventually meet, due to unlikely circumstances, but part again, as she has set as her ultimate priority to reach the United States or bust. While she comes to the U.S. to live as an illegal immigrant, he remains in Brazil and, despite many trials and tribulations, he becomes a successful rodeo cowboy.

When mysterious events change the course of an immigrant ship headed for New York in 1899, a mind-bending riddle unfolds for its bewildered passengers.

The Border is a Canadian drama that aired on CBC Television and 20 other TV networks worldwide. It was created by Peter Raymont, Lindalee Tracey, Janet MacLean and Jeremy Hole of White Pine Pictures. The Executive in Charge of Production is Janice Dawe. Episodes in the first season were directed by John Fawcett, Michael DeCarlo, Ken Girotti, Kelly Makin, Brett Sullivan and Philip Earnshaw. The first season had a total budget of 20 million dollars, with about 1.5 million dollars per episode. The series is set in Toronto and follows agents of the fictitious Immigration and Customs Security agency. ICS was created by the Government of Canada to deal with trans-border matters concerning Canadian national security including terrorism and smuggling. The cancellation of The Border was announced by the CBC after three seasons were aired.

The comedy, which takes place in a fictitious desert town near the U.S.-Mexico border, centers on the intertwining daily lives of neighbors Bud Buckwald and Ernesto Gonzales. Bud, a married father of three, is a Border Patrol agent who feels threatened by the cultural changes that have transformed his neighborhood. Living next door is Ernesto, an industrious Mexican immigrant and father of four, who is proud to be making it in America. As Bud and Ernesto’s paths begin to cross, their families become bound by friendship, romance and conflict.

Bordertown is a 1995 Australian TV miniseries. It takes place in a post World War II refugee camp in Australia.

Will Smith hosts this look at the evolving, often lethal, fight for equal rights in America through the lens of the US Constitution's 14th Amendment.

Four strangers — a flight attendant escaping a suburban cult, an Afghan refugee fleeing persecution, a young Australian father escaping a dead-end job, and a bureaucrat caught up in a national scandal — are stuck in an immigration detention center in the Australian desert. Inspired by true events.

A disgraced New York politician who was the city's youngest city councilman in history until he was brought down by a public intoxication incident gets an opportunity to rebuild his life when he is hired by a group of immigrants who hope to become American citizens.

Billy is an American situation comedy that aired on ABC for half a season from January to May 1992. A spin-off of Head of the Class, the series stars Billy Connolly as Billy MacGregor, a Scottish teacher who moves to America in order to build a new life for himself.

Several families in the farmland of Northern California navigate universal themes of class, immigration, culture and family.

Ellis Island is a television miniseries broadcast in three parts in 1984 on the CBS television network. The screenplay was co-written by Fred Mustard Stewart, adapted from his 1983 novel of the same title. The series tells the story of several immigrants from the late 1800s until the early 1910s, trying to achieve the American Dream and arriving on Ellis Island, hoping for a better life. Ellis Island highlighted numerous important events which occurred up to and during World War I, and many of the characters are based on real persons, such as Irving Berlin.

Not Safe for Work is a 2015 British comedy-drama series created and written by D.C. Moore for Channel 4. A group of disillusioned Londoner civil servants are forced to relocate to Northampton after public sector cuts, focusing on their personal and professional struggles as they navigate a new, less glamourous office environment.

Tide of Life is a three-part miniseries adaptation of Catherine Cookson's 1976 novel of the same name. Produced by the BBC, it was broadcast on ITV1 over three Fridays in January 1996. Young housekeeper Emily Kennedy learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby, after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds work for farmer Larry Birch. Another misfortune occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.

With unprecedented access to ICE operations, as well as moving portraits of immigrants, this docuseries takes a deep look at U.S. immigration today.

Over six episodes, Maisonneuve looks at the repercussions flowing from the arrest of 11 students at Montreal’s Collège de Maisonneuve as they prepared to join the ranks of the Islamic State in Syria. From the initial shock to a gradual opening for dialogue, the series follows the paths of six exceptional young people who share their points of view. Through their eyes, Maisonneuve highlights both the importance and the fragility of living together in harmony in Quebec.

Coach driver and single dad Peter Green leads a life of ordinary routine until the discovery of a dead body on the docile Bognor shoreline and an unsettling meeting with a new arrival in town throws his life into chaos.

Forced to choose between her alien husband and her home planet, a United Earth Space Corps officer has no option but betrayal.

Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV. Directed by Cherie Nowlan and written by John Doyle, it was the first mainstream television/film project to address the issue of the Australian government's refugee policy, a topic it approaches by chronicling the emotional journey of one young man during his year off after graduation, in his fictional rural home-town of Brackley, Australia. The storyline of Marking Time was inspired by the real-life experiences of Afghan refugees and their hosts in the rural town of Young, New South Wales; however much of the outdoor scenes of the series were actually shot at Singleton, New South Wales, in the Hunter Region.

An Egyptian lawyer arrives in the United States and tells the story of his life and his defense of a doctor accused of killing her husband, Eman enters prison in the United States and meets another Egyptian prisoner, Maggie, Maggie dies inside the prison after a plotting prisoner to get rid of Iman and Maggie, Maggie returns to the United States in search of her missing son.

The Youth Documentary Academy proudly presents OUR TIME, a television series produced in association with public television that dives deeply into tough topics faced by teens across the nation.