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...

Fear and fascination arise in Muriel Grey when she remembers the figure of her father, who passed away when she was still very young. Thirty years...

The artist captures the bittersweet journey of reuniting with her estranged father after searching for him for fifteen years.

The director follows her family through three different lands, speaking and eating with her grandma along the way

A 15-year-old boy goes on a hiking trip with his estranged grandfather, and overcomes the grief of losing his parents on a mountain above the clouds.

Aiyra left her small hometown to work in the big city. Conceição, her mother, left many years ago, but she returned.

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

Harlem Fragments is an Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural...

A woman grapples with the traumatic childhood memory of losing one of her baby teeth.

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

One man's discoveries concerning the small town his mother grew up in reveals disturbing facts.

Two people have a conversation.

CE QUE CACHE LA FORÊT (What the Forest conceals) explores the invisible inheritance we carry within us: that of the family unconscious passed...

Born into one of the wealthiest and best-known families in American history, Gloria Vanderbilt has lived in the public eye for more than 90 years,...

Shifting Paths explores one family's resilience during the 1933 boycott of Jewish businesses in Frankfurt, Germany. This film traces the loss of a...

Pauline Horovitz has been filming her father since 2009. In this new chapter with hints of a bittersweet documentary comedy, the hero, a former...

Danny Berish’s grandparents met at a nudist camp in 1949. In an effort to understand his grandparents’ radical lifestyle, he meets and...

A wooden rocking chair serves as a tool to delve through the history of Quebec in the last century.

Long Tack Sam was an internationally renowned Chinese acrobat and magician. He overcame isolation, poverty, cultural and linguistic barriers, extreme...