Movies: Identity

  • 2017
    Ambaradan

    Ambaradan (2017)

    Ambaradan

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    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...

    Ambaradan
  • 2018
    Scars

    Scars (2018)

    Scars

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    We admire beauty; we recoil from bodies that are marred, disfigured, different. Didier Cros’ moving, intimate film forces us to question what underlies our notions of beauty as we join a talented photographer taking stunning portraits of several peop...

    Scars
  • 2018
    Quiver

    Quiver (2018)

    Quiver

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    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....

    Quiver
  • 1969
    Born This Way

    Born This Way (1969)

    Born This Way

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    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....

    Born This Way
  • 2023
    Reila

    Reila (2023)

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    Reila
  • 2020
    Eden

    Eden (2020)

    Eden

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    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....

    Eden
  • 2019
    CodeSwitching

    CodeSwitching (2019)

    CodeSwitching

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    CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary desegregation program. Shuttling between their inner-city Boston neighborhoods and predominantly white suburba...

    CodeSwitching
  • 2019
    Cronofobia

    Cronofobia (2019)

    Cronofobia

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    A mysterious lonely man and a young rebel woman, confront each other in a psychological drama about suspended identity....

    Cronofobia
  • 1969
    Escape from Suburbia

    Escape from Suburbia (1969)

    Escape from Suburbia

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    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...

    Escape from Suburbia
  • 2019
    Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger

    Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger (2019)

    Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger

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    The story of a young boy forced to spend all five years of his short life in hospital while the federal and provincial governments argued over which was responsible for his care, as well as the long struggle of Indigenous activists to force the Canad...

    Jordan River Anderson, The Messenger
  • 2021
    Shelley in Wonderland

    Shelley in Wonderland (2021)

    Shelley in Wonderland

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    Shelley is a timid elderly lady who is competing in the Miss Senior USA pageant. Immersion in an extravagant world that also touches on the universal need for visibility, beauty and being included....

    Shelley in Wonderland
  • 2014
    Raspberry Boat Refugee

    Raspberry Boat Refugee (2014)

    Raspberry Boat Refugee

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    Mikko Virtanen feels like a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body. Full of disgust for everything Finnish, he sees Sweden as heaven. Upon meeting a suicidal Swedish psychologist Mikael Anderson, he seizes an opportunity for an identity switch. Raspb...

    Raspberry Boat Refugee
  • 1969
    Mudpuppy

    Mudpuppy (1969)

    Mudpuppy

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    A reflection on loss and nature’s quiet observance in a small nook of the Ozarks. ...

    Mudpuppy
  • 2019
    Identity

    Identity (2019)

    Identity

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    A short film exploring the notion of identity in relation to our actions and society's perception of individuals....

    Identity
  • 2016
    Frontalwatte

    Frontalwatte (2016)

    Frontalwatte

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    "Frontalwatte" is like running against a hard wall and falling down softly. Franz, Adrian and Anastasia stumble through a pointless world. They kill time by viewing apartments, jaw operations, incest and poetry slams. Their search for identity become...

    Frontalwatte
  • 1996
    Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero

    Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero (1996)

    Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero

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    Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood....

    Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero
  • 2025
    I'm Not Stiller

    I'm Not Stiller (2025)

    I'm Not Stiller

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    1950. James White, an American traveller, is arrested at the Swiss border. The police take him into custody, convinced he is Anatol Stiller, a promising Swiss sculptor who vanished seven years earlier after being accused of serving communist ideology...

    I'm Not Stiller
  • 2021
    Ashes

    Ashes (2021)

    Ashes

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    Christian, a young man from the city, travels to a town in Zaragoza, Spain of his recently-deceased father to throw his ashes and give a final farewell. He arrives to find the town abandoned years ago by everyone, leaving their houses to slowly crumb...

    Ashes
  • 2019
    Someday I Will Become a Rock

    Someday I Will Become a Rock (2019)

    Someday I Will Become a Rock

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    We see a rock. It transcends languages and cultures. It traverses time and space. Perhaps it has its own nature and memories....

    Someday I Will Become a Rock
  • 2025
    The Skinny

    The Skinny (2025)

    The Skinny

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    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....

    The Skinny