Migrant Worker Movies

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...

Nia from the Philippines works as a family maid in Taiwan. She prefers to stay in her private room, where a door separates her from her employers,...

‘In Safe Hands’ follows the journey of two Ministry of Manpower (MOM) officers who worked closely together with other agencies and NGOs,...

A story which follows the borders that have silently grown between a man and a woman. Interior, emotional borders. The ones which separate us before...

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...

A documentary about migrants in the Netherlands, living, working, and dreaming of home.

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

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

A train is heading for Germany - a train carrying migrant workers. Trains like this have come countless times since the late 1950s, from Italy,...

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

Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay...