Family History Movies

Tribute to director, screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley. A whimsical, playful film tells the story of the kinds of stories Polley tells, using...

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

Zhou Lan-Ping, who wrote the renowned Mandarin pop song ‘Green Island Serenade’ and the score of the acclaimed Chinese musical film The...

Flora Bear’s youngest granddaughter searches for truth and answers about her Indigenous grandmother’s life.

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

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

In 1936, the Kiel dentist Dr. Rudolf Schultz bought a film camera to capture the development of his son Dieter. Over the years, many film rolls were...

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

An instructional film on wine drinking.

Othello, a melancholic family man, seeks out a seraphic myth known as The Guide for enlightenment and is unknowingly taken on an esoteric tour of...

A school teacher never just teaches. A step back in time of the life of a school teacher in a small city in the North of France and her experience of...

A filmmaker embarks on a personal journey to document her father’s old neighborhood through her own perspective. Accompanied by her...

A short film about love, heritage and discovering a place where the heart feels at home.

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

Avelino Chillarón was 12 or 13 years old when he realized that his surnames and those of his cousins ​​didn't match, so he decided...