Family History Movies

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

When Ines died, she left a very particular legacy, 10 books that read 'For my children'; it was the story of her life. Marked by a youth idyllic...

A filmmaker explores the life of her 100-year-old great-aunt, Jane Chung, an actress who made a career for herself at a time when Asian Americans...

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

A new father takes his wife and daughter on a journey to his mother’s birthplace in Scotland. It is 1976 – the year in which NASA’s...

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

If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an...

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

Lia prepares for the future. Whatever it may be.

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

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

As Molly prepares for her late brother's funeral, Sam helps her through her grief and guides her to the very end.

3 estranged family members are reunited after the death of their wealthy grandma. They SHOULD split the will among themselves, but all have their own...

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

To open a photographs box is to travel through past and present, thinking about the future.

A cellar. A forgotten amphora. The ashes of a woman. Her granddaughter, daughter-in-law and son characterise her, entwining their memories and...