American Dream Movies

Cuban drummer Elvis García reflects on his journey from Havana to Miami, struggling to make his way in the American city as a professional...

In Texas, construction workers face the deadliest conditions in the country. This documentary follows three immigrant families who are rising up to...

Ever since he was a kid, Johnny Castle had a dream: to become a movie star. Driven by his obsession, Johnny moved to Los Angeles, and the corner of...

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

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...

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

All Denny wants to do is get by like everybody else, but there always seems to be something in the way.

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

Twenty-Five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of eco-pioneers, teenage runaways, war veterans and...

After being captured by a self-proclaimed border guard, a Mexican boy tries to cook his way to freedom.

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...

Why don't we do something to ease the suffering of the poor, the excluded? Because we live in fear of "the other," the stranger. Filmed a few months...

What chance does a young hustler from Anchorage, Alaska have after a long prison sentence that feeds him back to the same violent street life?

Aurora is a young Colombian who, forced by circumstances, decides to emigrate to New York in search of a better future for herself and her family,...