Movies: Identity

Reporter Nicolaas Veul decides to set up his first Instagram account and accumulate as many followers as possible. Over time, he becomes more interested in the social network's inner workings and uncovers a well-oiled machine based on fraud. While us...

Filmmaker Herbert Alfonso and musician Glenn de Randamie travel to Ghana to do some research on polyrhythm and the West-African spirituality. However, their trip to The Motherland makes them realize that home is more than the place where they grew up...

Linger in Singapore's public housing and the first thing you will notice is the void deck. The empty space on the ground floor of HDB blocks brings people together and helps develop a sense of community. It is used also to host weddings, birthdays an...

Features stories from around the globe that explore identity and relate to one another in unexpected and meaningful ways. This documentary traverses the inner worlds of diverse characters as they face their own parallel identities....

12 years ago, Rolf suffered a violent accident that caused him severe amnesia. During his long rehabilitation, Rolf had to rebuild his identity from scratch and, while doing so, he invented a flying machine that would give him the freedom of a bird. ...

A strong tale of racial integration, two different stories of young men who both are looking for a land to put their roots down....

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

Listening with headphones is recommended. Quiver melds horror and passion with Virginia Woolf's idea of a woman requiring a room of her own in which to uncover her true identity....

Fascinated by pop culture male figures, a man loses his identity in the search to replicate them...

Spontaneous portrait of an endearing and cheerful teenager living in balance between traditionalism and modernity. She presents her regalia to us and we share her pride in being Innu....

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 he becomes the person he despises....

Narrated in the Nahuatl language, it portrays the journey of a child looking for his parents, who will face a world full of prejudices to rediscover his identity....

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 and opinions about this new life that they have inhereted. This meditation helps to allow new purpo...

Follows Supernova, a young Christian, and the backlash they face after coming out to their church as LGBTQ+. Loosely based on director Tatiana Navarrette’s own experiences....

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

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

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....

Dreams and reality collide as Shelly, a lonely 50s housewife trapped in a loveless marriage, struggles to reconcile her identity with her conflicting fears and desires....

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 in the middle of the sunflower fields. Today the summer is over. Before dying, the faded sunflowers te...

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