Movies: Identity

A short archival documentary exploring how people come to the UK in search of a better life, only to find that the reality often falls short of their expectations....

In a desolate world of endless horizons, black-clad figures drift through shifting states of emotion, identity, and self....

An experimental short film that explores perceptions of Dominican cinema and its identity through personifications of commercial and independent film styles.‭...

IF STREETS COULD TALK by Samantha Abernathey - A young filmmaker takes three generations of relatives back to their former neighborhoods in San Francisco. She asks: how does where you live(d) shape who you are?...

On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated with Citizen Film’s team of documentary professionals to create a multimedia exhibit that offers a set o...

On her first day of school, Sofia – a Brazilian teenager who has recently arrived in London – is bullied by a group of British students. Homesick and alienated from the world around her, she meets Lauren, a British-Nigerian teenager who shows her Sun...

It Ain't Necessarily So captures a budding Japanese jazz singer and her biracial vocal instructor who struggle to agree on the proper way to sing Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy.” Humor is no stranger to jazz singers Eiko Katayama and Kazue Hiraoka who...

Standsinwater Sutherland is 2Spirit Cree living in Northern Ontario. Holding her eagle feather, she sits and tells her story: her quest to identity, how teachings learned along the way took her from the concrete jungle of Toronto back to her reservat...

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

Cintia is currently 30 years old. On January 6, 2022, she decided to publish on her social networks, a story she lived in her childhood. When she was 6 or 7 years old, she wrote an unusual letter to the Three Wise Men....

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....

'Haftasonu' tells the story of Hasan, who travels to Cyprus after many years following the death of his father. As he spends a weekend in his childhood village, his sense of belonging and identity will be questioned by all within. Following a festiv...

The film follows Corey as he navigates daily life, career, and relationships while challenging common assumptions about facial differences. Through candid conversations and everyday moments, Corey shares his perspective on identity, connection, and t...

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...

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....