Family History Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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 middle-aged man named Sanderson brings his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father to Applebee’s for their weekly lunch, where for three years...

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

When Jamie Diamond bought a discarded German family photo album from 1938, she did not expect to make art with it. But upon bringing a child into...

Her own family history from a female perspective, told as a fragmentary, personal stream of memories. Great-grandma, grandma and mother have to come...

When Ines died, she left a very particular legacy, 10 books that read 'For my children'; it was the story of her life. Marked by a youth idyllic...

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

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

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

Two brothers, ordered by their ill-fallen father, traverse through the cursed wilderness, establishing their past helps develop a newfound bond. All...

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