Family History Movies

While searching for her grandmother, the director comes across the story of three brothers who are torn between the fronts of political ideologies in...

A documentary filmmaker travels to Bolivia to learn more about his father and his family's history.

Two elderly sisters share the delicate art of making traditional Hungarian strudel and reveal a deeply personal family story about their mother, who...

a short story about my dad.

A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.

The film consists of video tapes made by the filmmaker’s father documenting daily scenes of family life, family celebrations, and holidays over...

Lost in the Bewilderness is a feature-length documentary about the filmmaker’s cousin Lucas, kidnapped at age five from his native Greece, and...

A sock puppet explores a family history told from the perspective of a mother and father.

On the anniversary of their mother's death, brothers Enzo and Franco find a box with many old photographs. As one of the brothers is blind, the other...

By approaching the process of sexual reassignment, the work mixes data and experiences, focusing on family relationships and the nuances of the...

A hand-painted stop-motion elegy that traces the erasure of a family home by eminent domain, accompanied by a soundscape drawn from archival family...

The first of these traces the words of Louis Pereira's grandmother, delving into his childhood and memories of the past.

A teenage girl and her older sister fight over their late mother's camera, and who has the right to remember her.

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle...

In an empty house, we see the memories of a home, from those who once lived and filled it with joy and love.

African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slave era. The result is this documentary, which...

At the end of the 1960s, Vanesa’s parents fled the Franco-regime’s deep poverty to pursue their dream in the Netherlands. Working their...

Jan's father is not his father at all. The directors knows this and takes this fact as the starting point for a very personal documentary film...