American Dream Movies

So Yun Um’s debut feature is a moving portrait of two Korean American children of liquor store owners reconciling their dreams with those of their imm...

We accompanied an 8 months pregnant Yuri, who migrates with her partner Mike and her son Santi with one objective, to give birth in USA

The film is a controversy on democracy. Is our society really democratic? Can everyone be part of it? Or is the act of being part in democracy depende...

In order to pass a history class and save his student visa, Caleb Shatar must earn extra credit by starring in his eccentric history professor’s no-bu...

When Ruben, a young Chicano musician, is caught between his mother’s expectations and his own hopes, he is forced to make a decision that will change...

The House of Suh” tells the story of Andrew and his sister Catherine, and how the values, conflicts, and dysfunctions of their Korean immigrant family...

Disputed with his father, Jay does everything he can to adapt himself to the city life as an immigrant.

Wokman shares an immigrant Chinese family’s pursuit of the American Dream from inside of their restaurant, China Wok. Based in 1998 in rural Georgia...

Following in the footsteps of the first film, "The Price of the American Dream II" continues the story of Laura Munoz who has grown considerably older...

Iconic imageries and moments of strange magic in California.

Examines how a US value system built on the extreme masculine ideals of money, power and control has glorified individualism, institutionalized inequa...

This film discusses the effect on how major American films in Hollywood were influenced by the Eastern European Jewish culture that most of the major...

This short experimental film follows two energetic college students over a day around various locations in three boroughs of New York City.

The internationally acclaimed director and recipient of the Erasmus Award in 2007, Péter Forgács created a documentary exploring the fate of hundred t...

The Apple Pushers, narrated by Edward Norton, follows the inspiring stories of five immigrant pushcart vendors who are rolling fresh fruits and vegeta...

High school girls Emma and Alice face a life-changing event after they leave their Sacramento home to pursue their dreams in Los Angeles.

In a rapidly changing America where mass inequality and dwindling opportunity have devastated the black working class, three Detroit men must fight to...

Far from Earth, tensions escalate between a feuding astronaut couple (Gnosis and ZanFagna). A video transmission from John Cameron Mitchell pushes the...