Identity Movies

The Mejia family emigrated from Oaxaca to Fresno, California 40 years ago. Filmmaker Trisha ZIff filmed the family in 1996, and returns now to see...

A short film about identity and gender.

A powerful cultural documentary about a Caribbean father and son who return to Grenada to reclaim ancestral stories. Blending folklore, myth, and...

A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.

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...

A documentary short that uses fish to explore identity and belonging in a metropolis.

Dismissed by those around her, a young woman begins performing as a living statue, finding strange power in stillness, until she reclaims the...

"Una China Poblana" follows a Chinese-Filipino woman, Malaga, living in 1930s Mexico. Due to her race, many aspects of her life encounters hostility....

The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a...

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...

Born with an unusual defect that left her without a navel, she grows up feeling like she doesn’t quite belong. Her body and her being carry...

Ortensia is a mechanical ballerina, that every day is forced to dance for an audience, in a seemingly endless loop. But one day, she sees in the...

With intertwined life stories, this film starts from the questions: Is Ecuadorian society essentially mestizo? What is a mongrel? This documentary...

Melvin, a teenager, returns to his past in an attempt to remember who he truly was after feeling he left himself behind. He confronts his teenage and...

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...

“An Untitled Film” by George Alshevskij-Jones is a short documentary/visual essay about the struggles of moving to seek a better future...

What will you do, what will you say, when you meet the Ex? A young woman must confront her fiance's secret past and resolve her misgivings when she...

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

Milo has a mask, and every time he puts it on, he is transported to a world full of sunflowers. There, he meets a girl in a white dress who, without...