Identity Crisis Movies

How much of your identity can you outsource? In an attempt to escape her workaholism, visual artist Karina Beumer hires multiple substitutes for...

A deeply religious young woman spends one powerful evening reconnecting with a long-lost parent, who now makes a living as a sex worker in Jakarta.

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area of low-class...

Charlie receives strange phone calls, maybe from the beyond? What's on the other end of the phone? It doesn't matter, as long as we imagine Sisyphus...

A young woman struggles with living a life wherein her identity is still tied to the abuse she experienced as a child. One night, she falls victim to...

Andrea lives with a girl who looks after him but who forbids him to open a door in the house.

Taher, a man outspokenly intolerant to Harissa -a widely cherished Tunisian spice- is pushed towards an uncomfortable spotlight, leading him to a...

Célia is just a simple woman who lives in São Paulo, until she remembers her dreams and an old passion when she receives in the mail a...

After a terrifying, real-life encounter, a drag queen grapples with overwhelming public attention, struggling to reclaim their identity and peace in...

A teenager struggling with his gender attempts to reconcile with his identity.

A boy is cooking, a girl is waiting. Breakfast is soon served. Then a stranger enters the bedroom where the girl is lying and the nightmare begins. ...

When Janek, a straight Polish guy watches gay porn for the first time, his world is turned upside down. Battling with unsettling new thoughts, he is...

Min Mors Hemmelighet (Suddenly Sami) is a personal film about identity. During the director’s childhood and youth in Oslo her mother never told...

A young painter caught in the vicious cycle of creativity must overcome her innermost turmoil.

A young and outgoing African-American boy living under the skies of 1950s Jim Crow Kentucky finds himself lost when he wakes up in the year 2026,...

Disgusted by life and uninterested in earthly subjects, Lovecraft intentionally avoided reality when writing, veering into the unknown and inspiring...

A young British man reluctantly travels to India for a sports fellowship and ends up coaching football to a team of underprivileged children.

Emi wakes up one day feeling strange.