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Tag: immigrant

  • Under Surveillance

    After 10 years, Justin Besler moves back to his father’s house. But it’s not as he remembered. His father’s house has been renovated to support four apartments with seven residents. And among them… resides a killer. When the victim of a ritualistic cult turns up on his property, Justin secretly places the tenants under video surveillance. The deeper he digs, the more he puts his own life in danger. It’s an ever bending mystery-thriller with an ending to die for!

  • Tourist Family

    A quirky Sri Lankan family seeking a fresh start in India transforms a disconnected neighborhood into a vibrant community with their infectious love and kindness.

  • Somers Town

    Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek lives in the district of Somers Town, between King’s Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.

  • New Boy

    A young African boy with a haunting back story starts school in Ireland, and finds out quickly exactly what it means to be the new kid. Winner of Best Narrative Short at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and nominated for an Oscar.

  • I Can See You Shine

    Two high school girls, Yang and Tung, are besties despite their opposite personalities and different backgrounds. Their friendship is put through the wringer as they navigate problematic teen quirks, unrequited love, family complications, and dysfunctional high school life. If being a teenager wasn’t hard enough, one has to deal with the cultural minefield of being a second-generation immigrant.

  • Don’t Come Back by the Same Way

    The story of a few untrained construction workers from poor underdeveloped parts of the country, such as Bosnia and Herzegovina or Macedonia, who carry out seasonal work in the highly-developed republic of Slovenia. Far from home, problems arise for the men – with their families, alcohol, the local population’s derision and the “real Slovenian workers”.

  • The Winning Season

    A comedy centered on a has-been coach who is given a shot at redemption when he’s asked to run his local high school’s girls basketball team

  • Biutiful

    This is a story of a man in free fall. On the road to redemption, darkness lights his way. Connected with the afterlife, Uxbal is a tragic hero and father of two who’s sensing the danger of death. He struggles with a tainted reality and a fate that works against him in order to forgive, for love, and forever.

  • The Yellow Sea

    A Korean man in China takes an assassination job in South Korea to make money and find his missing wife. But when the job is botched, he is forced to go on the run from the police and the gangsters who paid him.

  • A Better Life

    A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city’s wealthy landowners.