Tag: identity

  • Tamas

    Set in the backdrop of riot-stricken Pakistan at the time of the partition of India in 1947, the film deals with the plight of emigrant Sikh and Hindu families to India as a consequence of the partition.

  • Suit Yourself or Shoot Yourself!! VI: The Hero

    Yuji and Kosaku become involved with a brother and sister who want to drive a local yakuza gang member out of their neighborhood.

  • The English Patient

    In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

  • My Village in Nunavik

    Shot during three seasons, Kenuajuak’s documentary tenderly portrays village life and the elements that forge the character of his people: their history, the great open spaces and their unflagging humour. Though Kenuajuak appreciates the amenities of southern civilization that have made their way north, he remains attached to the traditional way of life and the…

  • Boys Don’t Cry

    A young transgender man explores his gender identity and searches for love in rural Nebraska.

  • Being John Malkovich

    One day at work, unsuccessful puppeteer Craig finds a portal into the head of actor John Malkovich. The portal soon becomes a passion for anybody who enters its mad and controlling world of overtaking another human body.

  • Girl, Interrupted

    Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen’s prescribed “short rest” from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice’s Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been…

  • Brief Crossing

    A young French man and an older English woman spend one night together on a ship.

  • Lost and Delirious

    After starting at an upmarket boarding school, a teenage girl forms close friendships with her two older roommates. However, when she discovers that her new friends are lovers she finds herself caught in a complicated situation.

  • Mulholland Drive

    Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman’s identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

  • The Salton Sea

    After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy “The Finn”, becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of…

  • The New Guy

    Nerdy high school senior Dizzy Harrison has finally gotten lucky — after purposely getting expelled, he takes lessons in ‘badass cool’ from a convict and enrolls at a new school. But can he keep up the ruse?

  • Beneath Clouds

    The story of Lena, the light-skinned daughter of an Aboriginal mother and Irish father and Vaughn, a Murri boy doing time in a minimum security prison in North West NSW. Dramatic events throw them together on a journey with no money and no transport. To Lena, Vaughn represents the life she is running away from.…

  • The Hot Chick

    Not only is Jessica Spencer the most popular girl in school — she is also the meanest. But things change for the attractive teen when a freak accident involving a cursed pair of earrings and a chance encounter at a gas station causes her to switch bodies with Clive, a sleazy crook. Jessica, in the…

  • Beautiful Boxer

    Based on the real life story of Parinya Charoenphol, a Muaythai boxer who underwent a sex change operation to become a woman.

  • A History of Violence

    An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

  • Capote

    A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book “In Cold Blood”.

  • Renaissance

    To find Ilona and unlock the secrets of her disappearance, Karas must plunge deep into the parallel worlds of corporate espionage, organized crime and genetic research – where the truth imprisons whoever finds it first and miracles can be bought but at a great price.

  • Inland Empire

    As a Hollywood actress begins to adopt the persona of her character in a film, her world becomes nightmarish and surreal.

  • Lucky Number Slevin

    Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma.

  • Drifting Flowers

    Three poetic tales of seeking the true identity. In the first story, Jing, a blind singer, falls in love with her band’s tomboy accordionist Diego. In another time and place, Lily, an elderly lesbian and Yen, her gay friend, create an unexpected bond and support each other in a time of crisis. Finally, we see…