Movies: Identity

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...

An actress finds herself trapped by an algorithm that hijacks extracts from her films for distribution on porn sites. After months with no help from anyone, she decides to regain control of her own story, using her imagination to heal and reclaim her...

Marcela, Anabella and Estrella are three trans women who have defied the lifespan expected for a trans person. Through their recollections, one explores the memory’s strength, resistance and love for life of these three women....

"Niña Linda" follows the story of a young Dominican-American college student, Carolina (played by Aileen Pujols), who begins to find a new sense of self through her relationship with Carter (played by Brock Warren), and navigates her complicated rela...

A high holiday service descends into a screaming match when a young man becomes entangled in a feud with an embittered congregation leader....

In cars at night, drivers and passagers share their thoughts about the representation of Black bodies in France. Jérémie Danon and Kiddy Smile bring together personalities from diverse backgrounds, allowing them to share their personal experience....

Tara Byte is a documentary short that explores the art and performance of the eclectic Soren Liu (He/They) while illuminating the interplay between art and identity, showcasing the dynamic intersection where Liu's creativity and self-expression conve...

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...

18 year old Em goes on a journey, with biscuits from her grandmother that she eats and shares with new friends. When down to her last biscuit, Em has to make a choice: eat it, or save it as a final link to her home....

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...

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....

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...

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...

On the outskirts, residents feel marginalized from society, as if they had no identity, and this is reflected in the surrounding buildings, anonymous in their neglect. The first character is one of these residents, who, while wandering around the cit...

A short movie about dreams and the personalities we become in an unknown world where everything is possible....

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....

Chayna Moor is the stage name of Edgardo Inguance, a man who lives in a state of austerity and makes a living working in drag. Despite all kinds of circumstances, he tries to be resilient and happy with what he does. The documentary is about the tran...

Ambaradan is the story of a need: the need to feel accepted, integrated, and acknowledged by others - Luca has only one belief - hate - he does not recognize the color of his skin, but only the "black" of his ideology. His life is an ambaradan, a cha...

An average nobody explores the struggle of self-recognition through the lens of a photographer who has spent his life documenting everything....

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