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Identitti

2026 · 103 min

A witty, thorny campus comedy that keeps you thinking about who gets to tell which story.

Directed by
Randa Chahoud
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Amanda Babaei Vieira, Stephanie Eidt, Sabrina Setlur
Overview
A student named Nivedita finds an old photo of her professor and discovers the latter had been living a lie. Saraswati, of all people — a woman of color who lectures on cultural identity — is in fact white. While the media and online community whip up a frenzy, Nivedita faces a political and personal dilemma as she tries to find out Saraswati's motive.

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Directed by
Randa Chahoud
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Starring
Amanda Babaei Vieira, Stephanie Eidt, Sabrina Setlur
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • race
  • media
  • deception
  • morality
Places
  • school
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour6
Realism8
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity7
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
comedy, drama
Directed by
Randa Chahoud
Written by
Friederike Jehn
Starring
Amanda Babaei Vieira, Stephanie Eidt, Sabrina Setlur, Zoe Magdalena, Saba Lou Khan, Mohamed Kanj Khamis, Lotte Becker, Alexandra Finder
Cinematography
Julian Hohndorf
Runtime
103 min
Country
Germany
Languages
German, English

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