Identity Movies

On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated...

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

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

Best known for his work in video, Richard Fung has made the politics of gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation his central focus. Chinese...

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A journey through identity and self-discovery.

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...

A young woman named Olive struggles to define her own identity, which manifests into her two inner "celestial beings," Sol and Luna, coming into a...

'9 waves' is an independent film, produced almost entirely by crowdfunding, approaching the issue of identity in the contemporary world. It tells the...

The link between body and mind is portrayed in the context of materialism; the importance of physical objects to express personal identity in the...

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...

A story about nostalgia for the city, for an unforgettable person and time spent with him. A memory of that "cosmic" encounter in the 1990s, which...

Following the passing of British-Ugandan teen Nia’s grandmother, she struggles with the guilt of not being able to mourn her death. Through...

Torn from their home by a hand in the sky, colorful entities seek freedom from a rigid binary in this short experimental animation.

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...

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...

Lindani, a neurotic young trans man, struggles to tell his partner Tam he loves them after a random encounter with a stranger shakes his...

Farida is back in her father’s native Algeria for the first me since she was a child. She discovers her grandmother’s house in the...

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...