Family History Movies

A 26-year-old man becomes gravely ill and died of an unknown disease. He was clearly hexed: it’s October 1980 and we are in Haïti....

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...

In an empty house, we see the memories of a home, from those who once lived and filled it with joy and love.

The director explores the birth origins of actress Merle Oberon, traveling to Tasmania and India in search of the truth, but her quest ultimately...

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...

The story of Christina Lau and her relationship with her parents as she recounts the happy and traumatic memories of her childhood and adolescence....

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

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

If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an...

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...

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

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 retired Canadian professional wrestler from a very famous family recounts an amazing life in the ring and discovers an unexpected new family...

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

Home movie collection of the Bohulano Family of Stockton, CA. Footage dates between the 1950s-1970s.

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