Family Portrait Movies

This rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family uncovers the story behind the family's phenomenal economic success. The...

For three decades now, Qatar, this small desert kingdom, has not stopped being talked about; because of its financial power and the secrecy that...

Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis...

An adopted Irish American artist confronts her past when both sets of parents come together over a weekend for her to paint a family portrait.

The film is a portrait of the Novak family: the results of the marriage between the farmer Novak and a townswoman of German descent, their children...

Some Things Are Hard To Talk About is a personal documentary about the secrets of abortions in my family over three generations. After I had an...

Thanks to DNA, this documentary establishes the identity of Marilyn's biological father, thus revealing her new paternal family, 60 years after the...

After starting a family of his very own in the United States, a gay filmmaker documents his loving, traditional Chinese family's process of...

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that...

As an orphan, for Jana, motherhood has always been priceless. When years later, she is raising a kid, single and homeless, Jana becomes a surrogate...

Paul Bedel will be 75 soon. He's and old bachelor, a peasant, a fisherman and a verger. He lives in a farm from another time with his two sisters,...

A young Dutch girl (my mother, filmed by my father in-love). A little redhead (me, filmed by my father). Boys (my brothers). And through the images...

Trevor, an Englishman living in Spain, is visited by his daughter who brings information that will change Trevor's life forever.

A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking...

A portrait of the Director’s maternal grandmother, Eliane, a French woman who lived her entire life in Tunisia. The film shows her last moments...

Stone Street documents the life and experiences of a Trinidadian diaspora family and their enduring connection to the long standing family home in...

GRUFF is a handmade, paper short film that tells the story of a daughter, mother, and grandfather and how love is conveyed in different ways.

A filmmaker revisits her evangelical roots to find connection with her estranged father.

In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish...