Identity Movies

CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary...

Musse is a mannerly local doctor trying to live by the rules, but the challenges from his environment threaten his ability to control situations and...

A member of a Greek family in Turkey is forced to immigrate from Trabzon to Mersin in her youth. However, events cause her to face her own past.

The world's largest island has been part of Denmark since 1721, but a significant majority of the 56.000 inhabitants now want independence. They feel...

After her parents' death, Kaley must move from the reserve to the city to live with her older sister. After an argument, Kaley runs away to return...

Two strangers wake up in a mysterious white room with no way out or memory of their past. The two must unravel their identity while navigating a...

As they get ready for the day, three young Black women discuss the public perception of their Blackness in relation to their cultivation of a strong...

A brief, abstract exploration of identity.

A short film that follows the story of a woman who, in the midst of an identity crisis, walks into an unfamiliar establishment full of unusual...

With intertwined life stories, this film starts from the questions: Is Ecuadorian society essentially mestizo? What is a mongrel? This documentary...

Thousands of Hongkongers, still living in the shadow of the 2019 protests, are immigrating to the UK to forge a freer future. This film documents...

We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what...

A young sculptor struggles to finish his masterpiece, a sculpture of a woman, as it inexplicably cracks.

A young woman named Olive struggles to define her own identity, which manifests into her two inner "celestial beings," Sol and Luna, coming into a...

The filmmaker’s grandmother moved into this house in 1971. When Rolande Ségalini died, everything remained as it was during her...

A documentary short that uses fish to explore identity and belonging in a metropolis.

In a small and conservative city in Jalisco, Alex builds his identity and defends his dreams: fatherhood, music, being a man.

It was summer on the shores of Lake Geneva. Alice was on vacation at the campsite with her mother, she was bored. One day by chance, she met Zack...

A journey through identity and self-discovery.