Family History Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Born in 1943 in Bessarabia region, Victor was forced to flee his homeland because of the war. After 77 years, his grandson, Dan, goes back there...

Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. A clumsy mother, an emotionally distant...

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

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

Long Tack Sam was an internationally renowned Chinese acrobat and magician. He overcame isolation, poverty, cultural and linguistic barriers, extreme...

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...

Brenda’s first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal...

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

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

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

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...

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