Family History Movies

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

While searching for her grandmother, the director comes across the story of three brothers who are torn between the fronts of political ideologies in...

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

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

A young mother, Dr. Marie Sol passed away soon after discovering that the fossil fuel company she worked for had been falsifying her research. Years...

During a telephone conversation, Oma reminisces about her life with Opa: how they met, what they built, and what endures.

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

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

Abroad at the time of her death, a grandson returns to revisit the house of his late grandmother, now occupied by another family. A reflection on the...

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

Artist and filmmaker Philippe Mora (Mad Dog Morgan; The Howling II; Swastika) is producing a graphic novel about his late father, Georges, widely...

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...

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,...

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