Identity Movies

Experimental film woven around a poem about Chicano culture in the U.S. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2017.

Luca, a young photographer, arrives in a village in Asturias to work on an artistic project. There, he stays with Xuan, an experienced cheesemaker...

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

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

In 2018 Joz Norris had a breakdown that made him afraid to leave his own flat. In 2019 he was evicted from that flat and had to say goodbye to the...

A story about nostalgia for the city, for an unforgettable person and time spent with him. A memory of that "cosmic" encounter in the 1990s, which...

A journey through identity and self-discovery.

YouTube musician and Korean American adoptee Dan Matthews travels to South Korea to perform and reunite with his biological family, including a long...

Shelley is a timid elderly lady who is competing in the Miss Senior USA pageant. Immersion in an extravagant world that also touches on the universal...

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

17-year-old Monica is left to take care for her exuberant younger sister, Sarah, for the week. As the girls rush to school one morning, the tornado...

What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of your accent? "Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i"...

After three years, Pete and Howie reconnect and discover the past has consequences.

An actress finds herself trapped by an algorithm that hijacks extracts from her films for distribution on porn sites. After months with no help from...

A man looks into a mirror and sees a reflection version of himself dancing, carefree, and rebellious -- only for the reflection to be shattered by a...

A genderqueer teen experiments with their identity in a series of anonymous car rides -- accompanied by a Greek Chorus of TikToks.

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

Does someone remember that project of López Rega’s which, in 1975, thought up the construction of a Great Homeland Altar where all...