Autobiographical Movies

Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the...

This is a book excerpt adaptation from Anna Akana's "So Much I Want To Tell You: Letters To My Little Sister"

The personal story of a woman struggling with an inherited illness, as told by Signe Baumane, the Latvian director-animator living in New York City....

Narrator and director Michael Schaap's confessional style and general goofiness bring levity to an awkward topic: "erectile dysfunction" and the...

TAPESTRY, part of Lawrence Jordan's "Odyssey" triptych and filmed much later in Jordan's life, is a charged record of his bachelor life after...

Just after Isidore moves to France to study filmmaking, his best friend dies back in the US. Through documentary, performance, and animation, a...

Pierre Clémenti's Soleil presents a psychedelic meditation on his life and his detention in an Italian Prison in 1972.

A young actor, trapped in an abusive film set, starts spiraling in an anxiety induced attack and reflection as he ponders on his work and role in...

Ben Howardson, a grieving middle-aged man, grapples with the loss of his accomplished concert pianist mother, Eileen Howardson. Her absence has left...

Heironymus Merkin is an internationally successful singer approaching middle age who retells his life story in a series of production numbers on a...

Isabelle Huppert is one of the most famous French actresses. In this portrait she reflects in voice over on her movies and her craft. She seems to...

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not...

Hartmann proposes a 76-minute film in which each minute stands for a year of his life. This obsessive rule is invoked in the last 4...

An autobiographical examination of the director's rape at gunpoint nine years prior.

Through a splendidly drawn and masterfully animated short, Ito Rina reasons on the troubled battle he has to overcome in her daily life, accepting...

After losing her grandfather when she was less than a year old, a now very conflicted teen must learn how to navigate her grief even though she...

Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with...

A family’s story, typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters...

Charting Julia Bradbury's battle with breast cancer, following her as she comes to terms with her diagnosis and prepares for a potentially...