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....

A group of plushies find themselves without purpose after their owner leaves for college. During their time alone they begin to form their own...

In Ahmedabad, a city where alcohol exists more as rumor than reality, two hostel students step out on a lazy afternoon to eat biryani, wander through...

Inspired by the viral true story of Panchi-kun, an infant macaque rejected by his mother at Ichikawa City Zoo, Japan. In this fictionalized narrative...

A journey through identity and self-discovery.

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

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...

Brayden Olson has spent his life wondering about the father he never knew. Armed with only a name, a faded photograph, and an improbable lead, he...

Marcela, Anabella and Estrella are three trans women who have defied the lifespan expected for a trans person. Through their recollections, one...

A young woman is abducted and held captive inside a liminal room where she is trained to regress back into her primal, animalistic nature.

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...

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

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...

A young woman is faced with a choice: give up her ability to transform into a dog or face the familial and societal consequences of keeping it.

Features stories from around the globe that explore identity and relate to one another in unexpected and meaningful ways. This documentary traverses...

At the intersection between animation, ceramics, film, as well as printmaking, Honeydew, Darling is employing an interdisciplinary approach to...

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