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THEME EXPLORATION

identity and origins

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
In a Year with 13 Moons
In a Year with 13 Moons
1978 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Adam Resurrected
Adam Resurrected
2008 · Paul Schrader
Die My Love
Die My Love
2025 · Lynne Ramsay
Layla
Layla
2026 · Amrou Al-Kadhi
Nazarín
Nazarín
1958 · Luis Buñuel
Quick
Quick
1932 · Robert Siodmak
The Whole Town’s Talking
The Whole Town’s Talking
1935 · John Ford
Aga's House
Aga's House
2019 · Lendita Zeqiraj
Reindeer Games
Reindeer Games
2000 · John Frankenheimer
Cabo Negro
Cabo Negro
2024 · Abdellah Taïa
Di che segno sei?
Di che segno sei?
1975 · Sergio Corbucci
Ernesto
Ernesto
1979 · Salvatore Samperi
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Agnès Varda → France

Her documentaries and fiction films obsessively explore personal memory, family history, and how we construct our sense of self through lived experience and recollection.

Atom Egoyan → Canada

His films consistently interrogate identity formation, displacement, and cultural belonging through fractured narratives that mirror how memory and origins shape our present selves.

Yorgos Lanthimos → Greece

He deconstructs social conditioning and the arbitrary nature of identity through darkly absurdist cinema that questions how origins and cultural norms define who we become.

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