THEME EXPLORATION

identity conflict

12 films · 3 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
Captain Marvel
Captain Marvel
2019 · Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck
Masculin Feminin
Masculin Feminin
1966 · Jean-Luc Godard
In a Year with 13 Moons
In a Year with 13 Moons
1978 · Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Paradise Now
Paradise Now
2005 · Hany Abu-Assad
The Insult
The Insult
2017 · Ziad Doueiri
Donbass
Donbass
2018 · Sergei Loznitsa
The Time That Remains
The Time That Remains
2009 · Elia Suleiman
Don't Look Back
Don't Look Back
1967 · D.A. Pennebaker
Chico
Chico
2001 · Ibolya Fekete
My Life in Pink
My Life in Pink
1997 · Alain Berliner
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
2021 · Destin Daniel Cretton
Split
Split
2016 · M. Night Shyamalan
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Atom Egoyan Canada

His films obsessively explore fractured identities, memory manipulation, and the gap between public personas and private selves through intricate narratives.

 Chloé Zhao China/United States

She examines how individuals construct and reconstruct identity through displacement, cultural hybridity, and economic circumstance in contemporary America.

 Lynne Ramsay United Kingdom

Her fragmented, subjective visual style crystallizes internal identity conflicts and psychological fractioning through formal experimentation and intimate character studies.