Family History Movies

Murió la fantasía is an intimate documentary that follows the journey of Denisse Guerrero, lead singer of Belanova, as she seeks to...

A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.

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

When she realizes that her grandmother, the woman who raised her, is losing her sight, the director decides to explore the bond that unites them...

Boris was a Ukrainian-Canadian mountaineer whose love for mountains was deeply spiritual. Now, his family must face their first expedition without...

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern...

School lunch chef Wanda McAfee-Conart reflects in her job and how it connects her to the sensory environment and to her own family history.

After 21 years I return to my city of birth in order to find out what would have occured to my family if we hadn't fled the war.

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

Amarr Coleman, a successful Chicago-based artist who has returned home to Kentucky after the passing of his beloved grandmother, Linda Coleman, finds...

“Don’t end up alone like I did.” This plea expressed by her grandmother before passing, haunts Tatiana, a single, 40-year-old...

a short story about my dad.

An estranged grandson and his grieving grandfather reconnect through an unfinished bucket list, healing old wounds and rebuilding their bond.

Josué, a 15-year-old boy, visits his mother, with whom he doesn't have a good relationship, which leads to certain conflicts. Being in his old...

Memory prevents rest and a woman about to die takes advantage of cinema to tell her story (inseparable from that of Franco’s Spain) and to say...

The filmmaker envisions what life would have been like if her parents never left their country of origin. The haunting imagery and disjointed...

A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning...