Border Movies

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

After learning that his grandfather is alive and living in Seoul, a North Korean musician must leave his fiancee behind and accompany his family to...

A federal agent infiltrates a crime syndicate.

As daylight breaks between the border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Juarez, Mexico, undocumented migrants and their relatives, divided by a wall,...

Lauren Southern investigates what is really happening at Europe’s borders. From interviews with human traffickers in Morocco to secret...

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...

An embittered Texas border rancher mistakenly shoots a young migrant woman as she crosses his property and must decide whether to help her, risking...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

In the mid-20th century, in a forested valley between Italy and Yugoslavia, a stingy widower befriends a young woman and helps her depart across the...

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

Felipe and Claudio have a unique relationship. Somehow destiny pulls them apart and sets Felipe on a journey where he will risk everything in his...

Breaking a mirror initiates five different acts in five different places; exposing shades of magic, politics, and systemic violence. The harm social...