Movies: Identity

In order to rescue his father's ramshackle grill restaurant, filmmaker and vegetarian Dario Aguirre is traveling back to his homeland Ecuador. What starts out as a strange debate about opening times, chips and Excel spread sheets, develops into a mov...

The Valdez family gathers for the traditional festivities of “Tayta Shanti”. Angela arrives from the capital with her daughter Angie, who denies her provincial roots. In the midst of the uproar over the party, Angie and her cousin Marcelo will have t...

Luis Tayori is an indigenous Harakbut descendant whose origins trace back to the depths of the Peruvian jungle. Years after the first contact with Dominican missionaries, Luis recounts the memories of his childhood and those of his grandparents....

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 home. During her journey, she meets a superhero who tells her how to hone her own powers....

Three Swedish teenagers express their thoughts about bi- and homosexuality while navigating questions of identity, self-acceptance, and societal expectations. Through personal stories and reflections, the film explores their struggles, hopes, and the...

80,000 Thoughts is a poetic autobiographical and fictional film about testing oneself and one's possibilities—sexually, gender-wise, and bodily—conveyed through dance, music, poetry, and images. It is also a personal story about the narrator's traum...

Actually, Tomas knows his parents. Born in Brazil in 1993 and adopted from there, he now lives with them in the Netherlands. Now he is faced with the question of whether he should look for his biological mother, or if there are reasons not to do so....

A restless young man roves in the gay hotspots of a metropolis. Anonymous places dressed in mirrors, intense colors and kitschy decors are the landscape for this stranger in search of comfort, connection and himself....

We all compare ourselves to others. We spend our lives wondering what others think and say about us. Some of us even wish we were someone else. We question why we are the way we are and not the way we wish we could be. Some of us have let the expecta...

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Since more than 10 years the director Darío Aguirre lives between two totally different worlds, Germany and Ecuador. He decides to make an extraordinary journey, visiting five unknown men called Darío Aguirre as well: One in Mexico and four in Argent...

Drama Series in four sections that tell a serious story in a humorous way. 15 year old Maja ( Idun Krøvel ) discovers that she has a father no one has told her about . She travels halfway across the country to get in touch with him . But she is as se...

A girl loses herself, parts of her scattered to the wind. She must befriend and accept these parts of herself in order to find peace....

A short film that follows the story of a woman who, in the midst of an identity crisis, walks into an unfamiliar establishment full of unusual locals. Mixing drama, horror and a bit of sci-fi, this film visually explores the emotional struggles of th...

While millions of birds migrate freely in the skies above, Fadia, a Palestinian refugee stranded in Lebanon, yearns for the ancestral homeland she is denied. When a chance meeting introduces her to the director, Sarah, she challenges her to find an a...

Openland is an art film guided by issues surrounding micro states and its derivative definitions. Through intertwining interviews, meta-narratives, and digital landscapes, Openland unfurls a dialogue between consciousness, individuality and collectiv...

Insides and Outsides is a documentary film project, which captures a timeline from the end of 2019, when the CAA/NRC protests were at their peak, till 2022 when the pandemic had upturned everyone's personal life. In an increasingly hostile environmen...

While indoors alone, a disabled woman reflects on a recurring social phenomenon she encounters when outside. The implications regarding self identity, her otherness and the right to opacity are questioned whilst she moves through poses from Artemisia...

With intertwined life stories, this film starts from the questions: Is Ecuadorian society essentially mestizo? What is a mongrel? This documentary aims to bring to the fore issues that have been poorly resolved both in the way in which Ecuador define...

A young woman named Olive struggles to define her own identity, which manifests into her two inner "celestial beings," Sol and Luna, coming into a conflict....