Movies: Identity

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...

It was summer on the shores of Lake Geneva. Alice was on vacation at the campsite with her mother, she was bored. One day by chance, she met Zack in the middle of the sunflower fields. Today the summer is over. Before dying, the faded sunflowers te...

“An Untitled Film” by George Alshevskij-Jones is a short documentary/visual essay about the struggles of moving to seek a better future in a different country. The research for the film was done by observing and talking to people who have left their ...

A young sculptor struggles to finish his masterpiece, a sculpture of a woman, as it inexplicably cracks....

Rafael is a creative boy who finds support in his grandmother and sister to be his true self, despite the prejudiced looks around him, drawing inspiration from a magazine featuring Lady Gaga that he receives as a gift....

Through testimonies from people who practice the art of drag, this short film offers an intimate insight into this world of rhinestones and glitter....

Lindani, a neurotic young trans man, struggles to tell his partner Tam he loves them after a random encounter with a stranger shakes his self-confidence. But as he finds himself pushed and pulled in all directions by the perceptions of others, can Li...

"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...

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...

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

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...

When Luna's superstitious family hides all the mirrors in the house, she decides to recover them, only to accidentally fall through one, transporting her to a new magical world. There she finds multiple versions of herself who have been confined and ...

Greg is addicted to Realm of Conquest, an online fantasy game where he plays an axe wielding barbarian. After battling on-line together for a year, Greg is finally ready to meet his online love in person. He invites her to meet him in real life on a ...

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....

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...

A journey through identity and self-discovery....

A man looks into a mirror and sees a reflection version of himself dancing, carefree, and rebellious -- only for the reflection to be shattered by a mystery man with a box over his head....

Katiana talks about her experiences as a woman in Haiti. As a woman, she faces many limitations and abuses from men who are more privileged than she is. Despite the difficulties of her condition, she has found the courage to achieve greater personal ...

What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side with his own biography to explore what happens when s...

Filmmaker Sophie Dros enters into a dialogue with strong women in a powerfull document about being a woman in the Netherlands today. Inspired by Simone de Beauvoir's essay The second sex, filmmaker Sophie Dros (winner of the NFF Debut Competition 20...