Migrant Worker Movies

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

In this tale of labor and family that shines a light on the precarity of temporary work visas, Raymundo Morales leads a crew of workers who have to...

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

In fremder Erde (In Foreign Soil) documents the Muslim traditions of burial in Turkey and Germany, but above all, the paths the dead take to return...

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...