Borders

Norwegian Dream

March 2023 •English

Robert moves from the Polish countryside to work on a fish processing factory on the coast of Norway. There he falls in love with Ivar who is openly gay and a member of the workers union. Robert is hiding his sexual orientation from the other Polish immigrant workers. When Ivar helps the Polish to start a strike for better working conditions at the factory, Robert has to choose between money or love.

Call Me Dad

August 2025 •Indonesian

Little Intan was used as collateral for a debt by her mother, who was forced to become a migrant worker and leave her behind. But from that moment, her life took a turn. Dedi, the debt collector — a stranger who initially just came to collect — ended up becoming an important figure in Intan’s life. Together with Tatang, they grew into an unusual kind of “family.”

Backyard

February 2009 •Spanish

Officer Blanca Bravo arrives in Juarez, Mexico — a grim nexus of corporate colonialism and sexual tourism — to investigate a rash of killings targeting female migrant workers. But with no help from the locals, bringing the responsible parties to justice becomes a frustrating exercise. As Bravo rails against indifference and local corruption, she finds herself on a collision course with Mickey Santos, a Mexican mogul with a taste for young prostitutes.

The Goat Life

March 2024 •Malayalam

Indian migrant worker Najeeb Muhammad goes to Saudi Arabia to earn money. However, in a twist of fate, he finds himself living a slave-like existence, herding goats in the middle of the desert.

When We Kill the Creators

October 2022 •English

A soul rock and roll movie about love, talent, death, and music. It is about a singer's (Shelby Lynne) improbable journey to achieve her dreams, and when she does, it's about the price she has paid and the question of whether or not it was worth it.

Match

Invalid date •Portuguese

Artur is an actor in decline preparing for an audition that will determine his career. Throughout the process, he finds an escape in his fleeting relationships on Tinder.

The Less I Know The Better

January 2024 •Dutch

The Ambassador's Wife

October 2016 •English

The beautiful and spoilt Yerusalem had a wonderful life in Paris as the wife of the Eritrean Ambassador. Due to political changes, her husband is arrested, and she has to run for her life, finding herself in a refugee shelter in south Tel Aviv, where nobody cares who she was. Even there, at the skirts of town, among the desperation and poverty, she does not give up and struggles with all her might to regain her former status. A torrid love affair with an affluent Israeli architect brings her closer to her target until she discovers that he will never leave his family, and that her fate is doomed.

Count the Hours!

April 1953 •English

A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.

O Que Aconteceu com Catarina

January 2021 •Portuguese

Un Día de Verano

June 2023 •Spanish

A young couple lives together in a small apartment in the city of Caracas, Venezuela. As they spend their summer in lockdown, their relationship will become increasingly toxic and more dangerous.

Seasons

April 2021 •English

A story of two friends that deal with heartbreak.

Strong Women, Weak Men

June 1968 •Japanese

After the closure of a coal mine leaves her husband unemployed, Fumiko travels from Kyushu to Kyoto with her daughter Kimiko, and they become hostesses at a cabaret.

Wind(s)stärke

December 2018 •German

A story about a man named Max Wind, who celebrates a men‘s evening with his friends under the deck of a ship and leaves his pregnant girlfriend Nele at home. A storm is rising and the atmosphere below deck is tense. As Nele goes into shock from a lightning bolt hitting her house the situations start to escalate.

The Door

May 2025 •English

A young couple, Eva and Lia, find their move into a new home together disturbed when Eva develops an all-consuming obsession with opening a mysterious locked door in their kitchen - one which seems to be producing sinister sounds.

Right Man, Wrong Woman

January 2025 •English

Right Man, Wrong Woman follows Brandon, who falls for Morgan, but her manipulative nature unravels his life, forcing him to face his mistake.

Barn Wedding

March 2015 •English

When a young couple have to reschedule their picturesque summer wedding to the rural and remote dead of winter, they are forced to face how well they truly know each other and the people closest to them.

The Ambassadors

January 1975 •French

“Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins; a speech to emigrant workers for France. Salah left his three sisters and his mother to become an ambassador, going to work on a Defense site, wading in the mud, he works with a jackhammer. Salah wanders in search of work and housing. Coming up against racism from the owners claiming the respectability of the building and the good neighborhood, he finds himself in a hotel in the Goutte d'Or district. The body of Mehdi, friend of Salah, was found in the Canal Saint-Martin, murdered by a fascist commando, and Ali died of a bullet, killed by a racist janitor. Faced with crimes that remain unpunished, Salah and his friends organize, unite with the French working class to defend their lives and their right to work.

Of Mice and Men

December 1939 •English

An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.

Wild Harvest

January 1962 •English

Melodrama about the inhuman treatment of migratory workers in California vineyards by the boss, and the formers' rebellion against him.