Identity Movies

What if you are made to feel ashamed when you speak your "mother tongue" or ridiculed because of your accent? "Pidgin: The Voice of Hawai'i"...

Documentary tracing the extreme life of outlaw writer, performance artist and punk icon, Kathy Acker. Through animation, archival footage, interviews...

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

Having arrived in Paris in 1985, Hector did everything to be like “them”. In a notebook he finds in his flat, he crosses out a list of...

Two women live awaiting the return of their husbands from across the border, where they went seeking fortune. During their long wait, each one tries...

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...

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

Luis Tayori is an indigenous Harakbut descendant whose origins trace back to the depths of the Peruvian jungle. Years after the first contact with...

On her first day of school, Sofia – a Brazilian teenager who has recently arrived in London – is bullied by a group of British students....

Searching for a moment of calm in the rain, a young man finds his voice in the most unexpected of places: the silence.

A young Japanese-American girl struggles with discovering her identity, heritage, and the loss of her connection to her past in the context of the...

Pepe wants to belong to the luxurious lifestyle of Leo, his best friend. To achieve this, he creates a world of lies that will put more than his...

In the vein of Raymond Carver, this abstract monologue captures the hidden truth behind our personas. What happens when you “see” a...

Standsinwater Sutherland is 2Spirit Cree living in Northern Ontario. Holding her eagle feather, she sits and tells her story: her quest to identity,...

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

In a small and conservative city in Jalisco, Alex builds his identity and defends his dreams: fatherhood, music, being a man.

CodeSwitching is a mash-up of personal stories from three generations of African American students who participated in a landmark voluntary...