Identity Movies
- 2021

Oaxacalifornia: The Return
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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...
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- 2014

Emma
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A short film about identity and gender.
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- 1970

Call of the JAB
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A powerful cultural documentary about a Caribbean father and son who return to Grenada to reclaim ancestral stories. Blending folklore, myth, and...
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- 2021

Synonymous With
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A student's increasingly intimate line of questioning causes his interview with a local horror host to take a vulnerable turn.
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- 2013

Queen for a Day
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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...
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- 2023

Migrant Fish
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A documentary short that uses fish to explore identity and belonging in a metropolis.
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- 2025

Exhibiting Avery
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Dismissed by those around her, a young woman begins performing as a living statue, finding strange power in stillness, until she reclaims the...
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- 2010

La Meilleure Façon de tracer
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- 2025

Una China Poblana
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"Una China Poblana" follows a Chinese-Filipino woman, Malaga, living in 1930s Mexico. Due to her race, many aspects of her life encounters hostility....
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- 2012

When Day Breaks
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The story of a retired music professor, Misha Brankov, who under unusual circumstances discovers his true origins. At the place where once stood a...
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- 2025

Can I Ask You a Question?
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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...
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- 2026

A Voyeurs Body
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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...
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- 2018

Carillon
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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...
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- 2008

Este maldito país
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With intertwined life stories, this film starts from the questions: Is Ecuadorian society essentially mestizo? What is a mongrel? This documentary...
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- 2025

For Good (It isn’t)
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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...
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- 2016

Losing Face
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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...
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- 2024

"An Untitled Film" by George Alshevskij-Jones
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“An Untitled Film” by George Alshevskij-Jones is a short documentary/visual essay about the struggles of moving to seek a better future...
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- 2010

Broken Vase
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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...
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- 1970

GAZE
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In the vein of Raymond Carver, this abstract monologue captures the hidden truth behind our personas. What happens when you “see” a...
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- 1970

Take It Off
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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...
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