Identity Movies

Searching for a moment of calm in the rain, a young man finds his voice in the most unexpected of places: the silence.

Filmmaker Sophie Dros enters into a dialogue with strong women in a powerfull document about being a woman in the Netherlands today. Inspired by Simo...

In 17th-century Pohjola, young Antti Puuhaara is looking for himself, because he has grown up with no knowledge of his childhood. Two actors, the trag...

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

An experimental short film that explores perceptions of Dominican cinema and its identity through personifications of commercial and independent film...

In the wake of one of the worst social experiments in the history of mankind, 'I'm not Black, I'm Coloured' is one of the first documentary films to l...

A reflection on loss and nature’s quiet observance in a small nook of the Ozarks. 

A group of plushies find themselves without purpose after their owner leaves for college. During their time alone they begin to form their own beliefs...

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 of...

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney Passé, wh...

How are biographies charted? How is identity constructed? Can we relive our past, reinvent it, rearrange or recycle it? Can we really know who we are...

Pablo is seen less and less in the neighborhood. So much so that his friends no longer even know what's become of him. His secret: he has a passion fo...

Striving to build a successful life in London, Reza places an ad in a peculiar newspaper and discovers the Iranian community hidden in plain sight. Wi...

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

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

Ortensia is a mechanical ballerina, that every day is forced to dance for an audience, in a seemingly endless loop. But one day, she sees in the crowd...

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 realize...

We see a rock. It transcends languages and cultures. It traverses time and space. Perhaps it has its own nature and memories.