Family History Movies

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...

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

In the midst of the rising political tensions of the former Yugoslavia, a young man stumbles across evidence that might prove that his grandfather,...

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

Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of...

Two men, the hint of a sofa corner and a pile of letters. Using minimalist means, the film tells the story of two brothers caught between exile in a...

Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, far from his troubled family life in Tehran, to research his father’s past. Visiting the flat where his father, a...

A filmmaker confined to a psychiatric institution tries to find healing by bringing together all the members of his family for a collective...

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

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...

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

A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and...

A young man Nuno, tries to understand how his fate is tied to that of his deceased uncle Nuno, whom he never met.

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

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

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

A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.

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...