Film Categories: Identity

  • My Grandpa Ivan

    A professional soccer player looks back on summers in a small Bulgarian town, recalling the deep bond he shared with his grandfather, who forever shaped his love for the game.

  • and the story remains

    After years of silence, a woman returns to a memory she was once forbidden to recall. As she develops forgotten images, the past surfaces in fragments of light, grain, and the slow emergence of a face. The film lingers between past and present, exploring whether enforced silence can wound more deeply than the trauma itself.

  • The Sky After Rain (Shaya Goldoust)

    Based on Shaya Goldoust’s audio journals narrating her attempts at testing rigid gender boundaries, and the transphobic incidents which led to her leaving her family and motherland, Iran.

  • The Sky After Rain (Shyla Hope)

    Based on recorded audio interviews with Shyla Hope discussing her inner self journey to understanding and accepting her identity as a lesbian trans woman growing up in Iran.

  • Granville: A Portrait

    Granville: A Portrait is a fictionalized story based on the real life experiences of a Black Male Stripper, Granville Johnston. While dancing in a strip club, Granville takes a fall, injures his leg and is taken to hospital, so the narrative unfolds in a series of flashbacks that illuminate his story.

  • Pocket Call

    Isolated in an old house, a man sees his daily life merge with that of a female presence that gradually invades his space. Trapped within his own home, he must confront this strangely familiar ghost.

  • Night and fog in Kurdistan

    Night and Fog in Kurdistan is a documentary by a Kurdish female filmmaker that follows seven Yazidi teenage girls who survived the 2014 ISIS genocide. The film traces their five-year journey from refugee camps in Turkey to resettlement in Europe, showing the effects of genocide, displacement, and the challenges of migration. Using illustration, self-storytelling, and first-person perspectives, the film lets the girls share their own experiences of survival and adaptation.

  • Work(ing Together) in Process

    On a quest to obtain some misdelivered camera batteries, Sam Koopman finds himself in a Rotterdam-based sex shop. Here he meets Marty who works there, and this chance encounter turns into a cinematic project between the two. When Sam turns the camera towards this new stranger, the two end up embarking on a year-long journey to create a film together. Their shared process of self-discovery turns this playful desktop film into a profound meditation on the nature of non-fiction film.

  • Navels I

    Artist Robin Riad talks about her relationship with her belly button. This is the first in a series of short film profiles about navels.

  • She Measures the Earth

    She Measures the Earth follows four women scientists across Canada, a glaciologist, an ecologist, a field researcher, and a scientist dancer, as they reshape what it means to do science, teach it, and live it. Set across glaciers, forest classrooms, ice waterfalls and dance studios, it blends poetic visuals with scientific precision, and treats climate not as a crisis to be reported, but as a relationship to be felt.