Family History Movies

Seeking to reconnect with her brother Daniel, Ama organizes a trip to some local pools. However, as the waters stir, so do their emotions, forcing...

Revolves around a dining table and its purpose within the house.

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

A teenager, disinterested in her Louisiana Creole heritage, finds herself having to entertain a visitor who only speaks what sounds like French....

Gregorio, Dolores and Zoila are three elders excited about the arrival of a new member to the family; Esteban, their great-grandson. Through the...

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

A film that delves into director Jean Carlomusto's family history by trying to find out if the rumors about her grandmother's death -- trying to rid...

THE LIMITS OF MY WORLD follows a nonverbal young man’s transition from the school system into adulthood. Brian has autism and faces the daily...

Focused on the experiences of Manuel "Manolo" Díaz Caballero, who was a local police officer in Malaga for more than 30 years, his memories of...

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

On an island in the Indian Ocean, the Comoros archipelago, unoccupied houses await the arrival of their owners. These places without souls and half...

“Minbera” is a drama about a Basque family forced to confront a situation they can no longer ignore. This film explores the different...

The suffocating love between between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted and neglected southern Dutch...

Growing up in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8...

65 years of marriage, four systems, two people, one love: Ilse and Wolfgang Gutsche have gotten along well with each other their entire lives. And...

In ‘Jew,’ comic Ari Shaffir delivers a raunchy love letter to the religion he says he left behind.

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