ROOTS IN THE SAND challenges prevailing impressions of the rugged frontier by enriching the landscape with stalwart Sikh, Moslem and Hindu settlers in this Mexican-Punjabi version of the "taming of the Wild West. Federal laws prevented "non-white Caucasians" like themselves from going home to marry, importing brides, or becoming American citizens. Instead, they married Mexican fieldworkers - women with the same color as themselves - with the blessings...

AMERICA: PROMISED LAND chronicles the massive immigration patterns of ethnic groups to the United States, anchored by interviews with descendants of ancestors.

To help adjust to coming home from war, Sam (Martin Starr, Silicon Valley), takes a stab at stand-up comedy. Amira has fled Iraq and the more time they spend together, the harder it is for them to combat their feelings for one another.

BLOSSOMS FROM ASH is a stunning visual and narrative exploration of life in the world’s largest refugee camp. The film is a portrait of lives discarded for profit, enabled by hatred and religious persecution. It features historical accounts, an educational look at the origins of the past and current conflict, and eyewitness testimony from the refugee survivors of the Rohingya Genocide in Myanmar.

A decorated Marine veteran fights to reunite her family after her undocumented husband is deported. With Independent Lens and Voces, David Sutherland weaves a parallel love and immigration story set in a world often lived in the shadows.

THE UNIVERSALITY OF IT ALL is a feature-length documentary that focuses on the topics of human migration and inequality. As intimate as it is informative, it explains the complexity of human migration by providing valuable data and information, but also by showing how it affects the reality of two friends and their day-to-day lives.

Abd is a 24-year-old Syrian who took part in the early days of the 2011 revolution and now lives in Padova, Italy. Together with his German friend Max he is working on a film called UNWRITTEN LETTERS. As they work together on turning Abd’s reality in Italy into a film, Abd revisits his past and explores possible futures. The film documents the story of a young Syrian man arriving in Europe and the process of making sense of who he is through film...

Sister Tse comes to New York through a Snakehead, a human smuggler, and gains favor with the matriarch of the crime family. While Tse rises the ranks quickly, she must reconcile her success with the real reason she came to America.

During a time of war and social tumult, a young generation fights for equality in the fields, on campuses and in the culture, and claim a new identity: Asian Americans. The aftermath of the Vietnam War brings new immigrants and refugees.

In an era of U.S. expansion, new immigrants arrive from China, India, Japan, the Philippines and beyond. Eventually barred by anti-Asian laws, they become America’s first “undocumented immigrants.”