Movies: Identity

We see a rock. It transcends languages and cultures. It traverses time and space. Perhaps it has its own nature and memories....

What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation movements in South London and Chicago’s South Side with his own biography to explore what happens when s...

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

A brief, abstract exploration of identity....

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A reflection on loss and nature’s quiet observance in a small nook of the Ozarks. ...

With intertwined life stories, this film starts from the questions: Is Ecuadorian society essentially mestizo? What is a mongrel? This documentary aims to bring to the fore issues that have been poorly resolved both in the way in which Ecuador define...

A strong tale of racial integration, two different stories of young men who both are looking for a land to put their roots down....

Guadalajara is a diverse city. Through six stories of the LGBTIQ + community, a reflection on inclusion that celebrates diversity is built....

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 crowd someone drawing her: the first representation of herself as an individual....

In order to rescue his father's ramshackle grill restaurant, filmmaker and vegetarian Dario Aguirre is traveling back to his homeland Ecuador. What starts out as a strange debate about opening times, chips and Excel spread sheets, develops into a mov...

An old, ailing general is losing his memory. His anarchist son wants to connect. They share a passion for the Wild East, where grandfather was a famous explorer among Mongol tribes. He died under mysterious circumstances in 1948 in Afghanistan. Rumor...

When Luna's superstitious family hides all the mirrors in the house, she decides to recover them, only to accidentally fall through one, transporting her to a new magical world. There she finds multiple versions of herself who have been confined and ...

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 meets his ex. Catherine is having a garage sale before she moves to Hawaii with her fiance Paul. Initi...

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

A young woman arrives in a small town, looking for a place to spend the night. Strange events will force her to flee....

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

Lindani, a neurotic young trans man, struggles to tell his partner Tam he loves them after a random encounter with a stranger shakes his self-confidence. But as he finds himself pushed and pulled in all directions by the perceptions of others, can Li...

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