Family History Movies

A teenage girl and her older sister fight over their late mother's camera, and who has the right to remember her.

On the military road construction site, on the pastures of Lessinia, writer Carlo Stuparic wrote to his brother Giani. The film celebrates his...

African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slave era. The result is this documentary, which...

Jan's father is not his father at all. The directors knows this and takes this fact as the starting point for a very personal documentary film...

A documentary filmmaker travels to Bolivia to learn more about his father and his family's history.

Can a secret change who you are? Mysterious events unfold and reveal how Martha, a Polish holocaust survivor, managed to lead a double life in...

A hand-painted stop-motion elegy that traces the erasure of a family home by eminent domain, accompanied by a soundscape drawn from archival family...

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

At the end of the 1960s, Vanesa’s parents fled the Franco-regime’s deep poverty to pursue their dream in the Netherlands. Working their...

Born in 1943 in Bessarabia region, Victor was forced to flee his homeland because of the war. After 77 years, his grandson, Dan, goes back there...

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

Romani filmmaker and advocate Liza Mortimer unearths her family's musical legacy in the archives of The English Folk Dance and Song Society,...

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

In 2022, while living and working in Hong Kong, Hester started writing daily about her experiences. The previous year, inspired by the weekly online...