Who says the younger generation is more prone to new trends, and the older generation is always conservative? Globalization and foreigners are new, but they are not always found favorable. The two European films thematise the African illegal immigrants, but in opposite moods. Yet both films show that the elderly are more hospitable to foreigners than the younger generation, even though those foreigners are the unwelcome groups in society. Terraferma was situated in an island in Italy. The old grandfather was a fisherman, unwilling to give up his boat and his vocation although that did not earn much. He fished with his grandson, whose father was dead. The second son of the old man would rather make the bay a tourist site. One day the grandfather and the grandson saw a group of illegal immigrants floating in the sea, some threw themselves into water, so the grandfather took them to the s…