Dr. Corine Stern believes everyone deserves dignity in death, including those who die while attempting to cross the…

Directed by Academy Award® winner Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (DRIVE MY CAR, HIFF 2021), EVIL DOES NOT EXIST is an empathetic, simmering slow burn. In the rural Japanese village where Takumi (Hitoshi Omika) and his young daughter live, tensions rise when two agents arrive with plans to build a glamping site for tourists. As villagers…

An insightful look into the working lives of undocumented farmworkers in America and their experiences with migration, exploitation, and…

Three-time Academy Award® nominee Agnieszka Holland's (THE SECRET GARDEN, EUROPA EUROPA) eye-opening new feature immerses audiences in the dangers faced by asylum seekers along European borders while reflecting the moral choices that fall to ordinary people every day. Set in the treacherous forests that make up the so-called…

Lourenço (Marco Pigossi), a Brazilian immigrant whose visa is expiring, is heartbroken and adrift when his American boyfriend unexpectedly leaves him in Provincetown, MA. While doing odd jobs at the house of a local artist (Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei), his once hopeful future dims into a state of limbo. When he meets…

Academy Award®-winning filmmaker Errol Morris confronts one of the darkest chapters in recent American history: family separations at the US-Mexico border. Based on Jacob Soboroff’s book Separated: Inside an American Tragedy, Morris merges bombshell interviews with government officials and artful narrative vignettes to trace…

Legendary, two-time Palme d’Or-winning British director Ken Loach (I, DANIEL BLAKE, SORRY WE MISSED YOU) returns to HIFF with what may be his final film, a timely and deeply affecting drama set in a once-thriving mining village in northern England. The Old Oak is the last pub standing, a gathering space for a community that has…

Refugees Chatila (Mahmood Bakri) and Reda (Aram Sabbagh) exist in limbo in Athens, committing petty crimes to pay for fake passports to get into the EU. When Reda’s drug addiction loses them their hard-earned savings, Chatila hatches a risky plan: pose as smugglers to take advantage of people just like themselves. At first,…

After learning that his son has died at sea trying to reach Spain, a Moroccan man must find a way to get his son’s remains back home for a proper…