Documentary
The heir to a Burger Baron franchise, the filmmaker chases clues through rural Alberta, capturing the trials and tribulations of Arab immigrants while uncovering the saga of a rogue fast-food chain with mysterious origins and a cult following.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
A Thousand Pines
Things of a Lifetime, Intimate Archeological Exercises
A Butcher's Heart
First Person Plural
We Never Left
Voltige
Stockholms negrer
Look Away
Mosques - Behind the Veil
Ilse
America; I Too
Sky and Ground
Razões Africanas
Immigrant Service: Focus on Jesus Duran
Kitchen Dialogue
Letter from Romania
Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew
J'ai pas les codes : Les aventures inattendues du boulanger de Besançon
The Cossack and the Gypsy
Shenandoah
SIMILAR MOVIES
A Thousand Pines
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2023
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 make the challenging decision to leave their families in rural Mexico to plant commercial pine forests in the United States.Things of a Lifetime, Intimate Archeological Exercises
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2024
The filmmaker’s grandmother moved into this house in 1971. When Rolande Ségalini died, everything remained as it was during her lifetime. But what to do with all the accumulated things? As her granddaughter Céline begins to film this material legacy, she realises that her grandmother has remained an enigma to her to this day. Room by room, she inventories, classes, counts, sorts the possessions retrieved from wardrobes, drawers, cabinets and boxes and arranges the objects into new still lives. It is an attempt to understand the deceased woman better and find out more about her. Step by step, the heiress discovers various connections to France’s colonial history.A Butcher's Heart
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2017
13-year-old Wessel faces a dilemma: will he become a butcher, like his tough father and grandfather or does he prefer to work with living animals?First Person Plural
IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 2000
In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and sent from Korea to her new home in California. There, the memory of her birth family was nearly obliterated, until recurring dreams led her to investigate her own past, and she discovered that her Korean mother was very much alive. Bravely uniting her biological and adoptive families, Borshay Liem embarks on a heartfelt journey in this acclaimed film that first premiered on POV in 2000. First Person Plural is a poignant essay on family, loss and the reconciling of two identities.We Never Left
IMDB 6 | Oct , 2024
Set during the Lebanese revolution, WE NEVER LEFT portrays a heart-wrenching duality between Beirut and New York, an impassioned testament to the Lebanese diaspora’s unrequited but irrepressible love for their homeland.Voltige
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2024
Anna, a twelve-year-old Ukrainian gymnast, has fled her war-torn country and recently settled in Montreal with her mother, younger brother, and grandmother. Confronted by the past, the challenges of exile, and a deep need for belonging, she seeks to rebuild her identity and regain her balance. Through her child’s perspective, the documentary explores the reality of life after war, questioning what endures and what is missing, even when one has found refuge.Stockholms negrer
IMDB 0 | Oct , 1986
The film is about the band Stockholms Negrer, but also about what formed their music, about being Swedish but still being viewed as an outsider.Look Away
IMDB 7 | Feb , 2019
Europe, the rule of law and host countries? Look elsewhere denounces what is happening in many European cities by taking the example of Calais. From the expulsion from the "jungle" in October 2016 to the situation there a year later, Arthur shared moments of life with men and women of Sudanese, Afghan, Ethiopian, Eritrean and local descent of Calais. By highlighting the gap between the field and the official speeches, this film shows us the strategy put in place to dissuade the exiles from staying. With original filming methods and his civic gaze, the director has managed to film the state harassment, the media staging, but also the strength and humor of the exiles.Mosques - Behind the Veil
IMDB 7.5 | Mar , 2016
With the help of hidden camera, Danish TV 2 documents how a known Danish imam teaches Muslim women about Islam's violent rules of adultery.Ilse
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2017
When Ilse Cruz was a toddler, she and her mom immigrated from Mexico to Chicago in search of better opportunities. Now a passionate dancer and ambitious high school student, Ilse hopes to go to college and one day visit the family she left behind. However, her undocumented status pushes these dreams further out of reach. Halfway through her senior year, Ilse learns her DACA permit qualifies her for a special document that allows her to return to Mexico. Through a life-changing trip, Ilse reconnects with her family and Mexican roots – and her legal re-entry to the U.S. fast-tracks her application process for permanent residency. Six months after she graduates from high school, Ilse obtains her green card – mere weeks before Donald Trump takes office. While Ilse’s mother rejoices in these unexpected events for her daughter, her own fate grows ever more uncertain.America; I Too
IMDB 1 | Mar , 2017
Three arrested and detained undocumented immigrants must navigate the system to fight impending deportation.Sky and Ground
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2017
Three generations of the Nabi family flee their home in Aleppo and try to make it to safety in Germany where some members of the family have already settled. Along the way they suffer countless setbacks and heartache.Razões Africanas
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2023
Immigrant Service: Focus on Jesus Duran
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2021
After losing her father at an early age, Tina Duran explores the rich history of her father, the story of her ancestors who migrated from Mexico to the United States, and the impact the Vietnam War had on their community.Kitchen Dialogue
IMDB 0 | Apr , 2025
A generational trauma through the lens of an Asian American teenager through food and poetry.Letter from Romania
IMDB 0 | Jan , 1973
Part of a series of promotional films commissioned by Romania's National Tourism Office in the early 1970s with the aim of reconnecting diasporic communities with the country they left behind. In this case, the film is addressed to Jews who emigrated in the context of the Second World War or were sold by the Romanian state to the State of Israel starting in the 50s and settled in Israel and the USA - therefore, a target group made up of seniors, probably retired , possibly prosperous, eager to revisit the places of youth and willing to forget, temporarily, the traumas associated with them.Yelena's Story - Everything You Need to Know to Be a Jew
IMDB 0 | Jan , 2026
This Ukrainian-Jewish teenager immigrated to San Francisco as a young child. Now on the brink of adulthood, she interviews her grandparents about their new lives yearning to see her American world through their eyes. Yelena understands that life in the US has changed her profoundly.J'ai pas les codes : Les aventures inattendues du boulanger de Besançon
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2025
The Cossack and the Gypsy
IMDB 0 | Nov , 2013
The Cossack and the Gypsy takes us to the heart of intimate worlds of Lev Chayka and Régine Gabrysz, illustrating their memories, interior views composed of the stories about their childhood and devotion to their country of origin (Ukraine and Soviet Union). The wars and dictatorship of the past in the Eastern Europe is set in contrast with the Far North of Quebec in a forgotten boom town. Vera and Jack, the last miner, Régine and Lev are among the last first immigrants. Their Slavic voices and accents still lull the Abitibi sonorous landscapes, but for how long...Shenandoah
IMDB 6.6 | Oct , 2012
An epic feature documentary about a coal mining town with a fiery immigrant heritage, once pivotal in fueling America’s industrial revolution and today in decline and struggling to survive and retain its identity, soul and values – all of which were dramatically challenged when four of the town’s white, star football players were charged in the beating death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant named Luis Ramirez. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer David Turnley’s most personal work, SHENANDOAH creates a deeply felt portrait of a working class community, and the American Dream on trial.