Movies: Self discovery

Ama, the daughter of Senegalese asylum seekers, feels completely Dutch. When Ama's mother and brother are arrested, Ama sets off in search of her father through Rotterdam in the middle of winter, hoping to avoid deportation. During this frightening a...

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Bel Davis has been hiding behind wigs for years until her Alopecia is exposed publicly. She uses this experience as a catalyst to break free of the shame she feels towards her baldness....

An idle, Arab American stoner discovers a portal to the war memories of his mother's past while doing the laundry chore....

The young rich kid, Chyna, got carried away with his glamorous lifestyle and decided that he could do anything he wanted. Desperate to set his son straight, his oligarch father takes extreme measures. Together with an eccentric psychologist, he devis...

The film starts in the early evening of a normal day: Sophie, a 20 year old girl, is pregnant and wanders through the night to get sure about her future life. Does she want to be a mother or do an abortion? Does she love her friend or not? Who is the...

Young, Jewish and misunderstood Simon Markowitz gets himself into hot water with his Rabbi when he creates his own recipe for a knish that no one in his family seems intent on eating....

A scathing black comedy of embarrassment that charts the emotional breakdown and rebirth of a woman ripe for self-discovery....

"A Path with Heart" is a powerful and thought-provoking film, made through “the help of the course of the unknown” that explores the complexities of the human experience. The movie follows the journey of a young man who embarks on a journey of self-d...

Romaine, a tall thirty-year-old woman, has not found herself yet. She has been living for several years with her boyfriend Justin. When, overnight, the latter drags her after him to Canada in order to start a new life, she blows smoke. Not only does ...

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The 6 minutes film unfurls the story of self discovery in the strangest time through a MakeUp Artist. His only guest happens to be economic crisis. With the moist eyes and the time he is left alone with, his sight is beclouded. So, he turns to himsel...

A girl approaches a divine entity that comes to the world in the form of a yellow umbrella, and ends up discovering her true self....

A poetic short film about a young woman, Dolly, who’s grappling with the haunting echoes of past relationships and her unraveling sense of self....

A down-and-out actor living in Tokyo is hired as a token American guy for a Japanese rental-family company, leading him on an unexpected journey of self-discovery through the roles he plays in other people’s lives....

Francesco Falaschi's comedy I Am Emma stars Cecilia Dazzi as a woman who suffers from an unusual disorder. Emma is a town councilwoman whose husband (Marco Giallini) has taken a mistress because he dislikes her repressed behavior. Her demeanor change...

Rush (Ìwàǹwara)" is a cautionary tale about the risks of divining head-first into online relationships and the misconceptions about love and material wealth. It also underscores the themes of redemption, the resilience of the human spirit, and the po...

A disconnected young woman floats through the events surrounding the night of her housewarming....

Follows the journey of one man on the path of his self-discovery that would traverse landscapes outside and layers deep within....

A couple trying to rekindle their relationship travel to St. Pierre, a French island off the Newfoundland coast, and become entangled with another couple....