Identity Movies

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....

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

Bryan Wilmoth is the oldest of eight children who grew up in a very strict household. Eventually, all the siblings became estranged from their...

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...

An anthology of four diverse stories about identity and belonging through prism of love and loss, sexuality, marriage and wish to fulfill dreams.

Ambaradan is the story of a need: the need to feel accepted, integrated, and acknowledged by others - Luca has only one belief - hate - he does not...

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

The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a...

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

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...

After a failed life plan in Berlin, Thilo has returned to his hometown. His first day as a delivery driver in his father's beverage market turns into...

“An Untitled Film” by George Alshevskij-Jones is a short documentary/visual essay about the struggles of moving to seek a better future...

A poetic short film about a young woman, Dolly, who’s grappling with the haunting echoes of past relationships and her unraveling sense of self.

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...

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

A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity.

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

After several years working as a high fashion model, Adel begins to question her surroundings and sense the absurdity of her situation. To ease her...

In 2020, when a French robotics student investigates his mother's guarded secret about his true Armenian identity, he jeopardizes his university AI...