Identity Movies

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

L'Idiot follows Rajat "Rinku" Chaddha, an awkward, daydreaming young man obsessed with French culture, as he attempts to win over Mona, a charismatic...

2013 Chinese horror film directed by Qiu Chuji. After being kidnapped, a young woman awakens three months later on the side of a road with no memory...

A woman meets a man in a bar late in the evening and goes to his apartment. A woman picks up a girl from school and runs with the child through the...

Luis Tayori is an indigenous Harakbut descendant whose origins trace back to the depths of the Peruvian jungle. Years after the first contact with...

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...

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is...

In cars at night, drivers and passagers share their thoughts about the representation of Black bodies in France. Jérémie Danon and...

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

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

A young woman arrives in a small town, looking for a place to spend the night. Strange events will force her to flee.

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

Reporter Nicolaas Veul decides to set up his first Instagram account and accumulate as many followers as possible. Over time, he becomes more...

Pepe wants to belong to the luxurious lifestyle of Leo, his best friend. To achieve this, he creates a world of lies that will put more than his...

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

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...

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...

People from different ethnic backgrounds with "difficult" names by Western standards share their experience with moving through the world with an...