Movies: Identity

Best known for his work in video, Richard Fung has made the politics of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation his central focus. Chinese Characters (1986) examines the ambiguous relationship of gay Asian men with white gay porn....

A poetic short film about a young woman, Dolly, who’s grappling with the haunting echoes of past relationships and her unraveling sense of self....

In 2020, when a French robotics student investigates his mother's guarded secret about his true Armenian identity, he jeopardizes his university AI competition to travel to Artsakh and gets entangled in an unexpected full-scale war where he must rely...

Young African-Brazilian Miguel drives across the country in search of a long-lost relative to find out about his ancestry. However, a deeper understanding emerges through his encounters along the way....

In Sara's class, the popular kids, also known as the kings and queens, are subjected to daily humiliations, which include having their pants pulled down or water thrown on them, but this is only a sign of their elevated status. Sara is the only blond...

A conflicted woman discovers she is pregnant and must confront unresolved issues shadowing her relationship....

A self-proclaimed pageant queen as she vies for the crown of the local pageant. Through a series of surreal visions, she reflects on the sacrifices she's made for the sake of her onstage persona....

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A genderqueer teen experiments with their identity in a series of anonymous car rides -- accompanied by a Greek Chorus of TikToks....

Bryan Wilmoth is the oldest of eight children who grew up in a very strict household. Eventually, all the siblings became estranged from their parents. At StoryCorps, Bryan told his brother mike about the day their father discovered that Bryan was ga...

The story of a traditional Kyoto woman who runs a failing kimono business and the entrepreneurial, biracial, business consultant who comes to help keep it solvent. Along the way they fall in love, but his need for change clashes with her desire for t...

Since more than 10 years the director Darío Aguirre lives between two totally different worlds, Germany and Ecuador. He decides to make an extraordinary journey, visiting five unknown men called Darío Aguirre as well: One in Mexico and four in Argent...

"Africa Light" - as white local citizens call Namibia. The name suggests romance, the beauty of nature and promises a life without any problems in a country where the difference between rich and poor could hardly be greater. Namibia does not give tha...

Luca, a young photographer, arrives in a village in Asturias to work on an artistic project. There, he stays with Xuan, an experienced cheesemaker who is marked by a past full of rumors and prejudice. Through Luca’s camera and Xuan’s craft, the two d...

In 17th-century Pohjola, young Antti Puuhaara is looking for himself, because he has grown up with no knowledge of his childhood. Two actors, the tragedian and the comedian, who were banished from Tsarist Russia to Karelia, had predicted to the crook...

'9 waves' is an independent film, produced almost entirely by crowdfunding, approaching the issue of identity in the contemporary world. It tells the story of a man (played by Dario Merlini) who forgets his memories by drinking water from a fountain ...

A documentary film about the trans-aro/ace artist Jayden Sullivan. It explore his journey in his art as well as how his queer identity intersects with it....

The story is set in a heavenly village on the Mexican west coast. To the west is the Pacific Ocean, immense, ominous, tumultuous, and on the opposite side is the jungle, lush, thick and populated by all sorts of animals. Violeta Martinez was born the...

I was about seven years old the first time someone called me \"black\" on the street. I turned around to see who they were talking to, until I realized they were talking to me....

Leo the foreign legionnaire, Wilhelm the priest and Charly the brothel owner are unequal brothers. Wilhelm is determined to have Charly's brothel closed down. When Charly kidnaps Wilhelm to his brothel, he recognizes his brother - and promptly preten...