Identity Movies

The Mejia family emigrated from Oaxaca to Fresno, California 40 years ago. Filmmaker Trisha ZIff filmed the family in 1996, and returns now to see...

A young woman is faced with a choice: give up her ability to transform into a dog or face the familial and societal consequences of keeping it.

In order to rescue his father's ramshackle grill restaurant, filmmaker and vegetarian Dario Aguirre is traveling back to his homeland Ecuador. What...

A young woman is abducted and held captive inside a liminal room where she is trained to regress back into her primal, animalistic nature.

A short film about facing one's identity.

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker. Through animation, archival footage, interviews...

“To begin a new chapter, you must close the last — even if it hurts to turn the page.” Savage Song is a poetic short film that...

A documentary film that follows the lives of first-generation retired immigrants living in Finland.

In 2022, when the economic crisis in her native country was at its peak, she decided to visit her family there. She turned her short trip into a...

A verité legal drama about Judge Kholoud Al-Faqih, the first woman appointed to a Shari'a court in the Middle East, whose career provides rare...

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

Following the passing of British-Ugandan teen Nia’s grandmother, she struggles with the guilt of not being able to mourn her death. Through...

Suzanne is waking up. In the fleeting moments before she forgets her dreams, she searches her subconscious for an answer to the question on the tip...

A group of young adults, Navigate love, identity, self-destruction while trying to survive their twenties in a world that constanlty makes them feel...

Among images of a utopian everyday life, the Paranaíba river tries to understand why Anair is so afraid of its depths.

Filmmaker Herbert Alfonso and musician Glenn de Randamie travel to Ghana to do some research on polyrhythm and the West-African spirituality....

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...

Best known for his work in video, Richard Fung has made the politics of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation his central focus. Chinese...

A conflicted woman discovers she is pregnant and must confront unresolved issues shadowing her relationship.

Chaos ensues when retired parents announce their divorce to their three thirty-something children, and over one dramatic weekend the family must...