Border Movies

Drawing inspiration from his personal encounter with the Italian refugee child Giovanna during World War II, Markus Imhoof tells how refugees and migr...

Over many years of division, North and South Korea have become like a hall of mirrors where it is difficult to tell the real from the false. Inspired...

This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different countrie...

Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers.

East Germany, 1988: working as a state security service agent, Jürgen Kaiser is loyal to the party line, but worried about his son Marco, a punk. As h...

GAZA brings us into a unique place beyond the reach of television news reports to reveal a world rich with eloquent and resilient characters, offering...

End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jo...

Federal officer with the Department of Homeland Security discovers a national security breach related to the entry of 23 aliens from terrorist countri...

Rachid is a young man who survives in Morroco boxing in clandestine fights in order to save enough money with which to pay a smuggler, and be able to...

A beautiful East German Olympic hopeful pole-vaults over the Berlin Wall to freedom.

A traveler between two countries metaphorically named "Easternstan" and "Westernstan" loses his passport and identity papers. Stuck between the two co...

There is a small frontier post. A soldier abiding by the rules of the system gradually turns into a murderer.

The story interleaves the destinies of two families, a Serbian from Bosnia and a Hungarian, in a village on the border.

An absurd game of “finding happiness” is being played by local Latvian coyotes* and illegal immigrants on the Russian and the European Union border....

The border between Brazil and Paraguay: living on opposite sides of a big river, Brazilian boy Joca falls in love with indigenous-Paraguayan girl Basa...

Three brothers smuggle arms and drugs from Mexico into the US.

With a visual style that alternates between intimate verité moments, meditative reflection and suspenseful sequences, the film tells the story of Chi...

24 hours on the border between East and West Germany. In an outlying West Berlin district, police officers chat about their personal lives, take care...

A film about borders and border checkpoints, poetically following the people that come into contact with them - one way or another. Borders is about m...