Identity Movies

A young Japanese-American girl struggles with discovering her identity, heritage, and the loss of her connection to her past in the context of the...

Maya confronts societal expectations through therapy, triggering emotional turbulence that threatens to upend her life.

The three friends Ertan, Kemal and Mehdi live in Kiel. They are foreigners, "Kanaks", as they proudly call themselves. For them, this term is an...

Chronicle of an amateur theater company which has been performing the life of Jesus for 31 years.

Drawn by a strange ringing, a weary writer slips out of her life to follow it through the city, encountering strangers whose fleeting, intimate...

I was about seven years old the first time someone called me \"black\" on the street. I turned around to see who they were talking to, until I...

Rafael is a creative boy who finds support in his grandmother and sister to be his true self, despite the prejudiced looks around him, drawing...

A high holiday service descends into a screaming match when a young man becomes entangled in a feud with an embittered congregation leader.

“Hétérocères” is a short experimental animation about masked, corpse-like figures moving through a surreal world...

Openland is an art film guided by issues surrounding micro states and its derivative definitions. Through intertwining interviews, meta-narratives,...

A documentary that follows the Bixa Pare Collective during an edition of the Sarau Bixaria Literária, exploring art, freedom of expression,...

Lawrence, a former amateur boxer with dementia, fights for his tie to his own identity; while his daughters grapple with the decision of whether...

A reflection on love and identity with detours towards magical realism, which winks at the oral tradition of coastal populations and introduces us to...

A teenager struggles with his identity after an unresolved family relationship.

In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humiliations, which include having their pants pulled...

Three Swedish teenagers express their thoughts about bi- and homosexuality while navigating questions of identity, self-acceptance, and societal...

Rabih, a young blind man, lives in a small village in Lebanon. He sings in a choir and edits Braille documents for an income. His life unravels when...

Rachel Dolezal became infamous when she was unmasked as a white woman passing for black so thoroughly that she had become the head of her local...

Farida is back in her father’s native Algeria for the first me since she was a child. She discovers her grandmother’s house in the...

'9 waves' is an independent film, produced almost entirely by crowdfunding, approaching the issue of identity in the contemporary world. It tells the...