Movies: Identity

While indoors alone, a disabled woman reflects on a recurring social phenomenon she encounters when outside. The implications regarding self identity, her otherness and the right to opacity are questioned whilst she moves through poses from Artemisia...

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

An experimental short film that explores perceptions of Dominican cinema and its identity through personifications of commercial and independent film styles.‭...

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IF STREETS COULD TALK by Samantha Abernathey - A young filmmaker takes three generations of relatives back to their former neighborhoods in San Francisco. She asks: how does where you live(d) shape who you are?...

On the way to creating a new future, the New Jewish Filmmaking Project is rediscovering the past. 11 young storytellers, ages 15-25, collaborated with Citizen Film’s team of documentary professionals to create a multimedia exhibit that offers a set o...

The link between body and mind is portrayed in the context of materialism; the importance of physical objects to express personal identity in the tangible world. Four categories are shown in the full installation that supported this film; everyday ob...

Insides and Outsides is a documentary film project, which captures a timeline from the end of 2019, when the CAA/NRC protests were at their peak, till 2022 when the pandemic had upturned everyone's personal life. In an increasingly hostile environmen...

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 Gershwin’s “I Loves You Porgy.” Humor is no stranger to jazz singers Eiko Katayama and Kazue Hiraoka who...

Standsinwater Sutherland is 2Spirit Cree living in Northern Ontario. Holding her eagle feather, she sits and tells her story: her quest to identity, how teachings learned along the way took her from the concrete jungle of Toronto back to her reservat...

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 conflict....

As they get ready for the day, three young Black women discuss the public perception of their Blackness in relation to their cultivation of a strong sense of self. Wash Day is an intimate exploration into how private, domestic acts such as washing yo...

The film follows Corey as he navigates daily life, career, and relationships while challenging common assumptions about facial differences. Through candid conversations and everyday moments, Corey shares his perspective on identity, connection, and t...

An average nobody explores the struggle of self-recognition through the lens of a photographer who has spent his life documenting everything....

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

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Chayna Moor is the stage name of Edgardo Inguance, a man who lives in a state of austerity and makes a living working in drag. Despite all kinds of circumstances, he tries to be resilient and happy with what he does. The documentary is about the tran...

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The filmmaker’s grandmother moved into this house in 1971. When Rolande Ségalini died, everything remained as it was during her lifetime. But what to do with all the accumulated things? As her granddaughter Céline begins to film this material legacy,...