Family History Movies

A girl and her grandmother celebrate a birthday on a summer day in Maine.

Memories are created and preserved when a boy paints a porcelain cup, a grandfather tells his grandchildren about two birds, and a grandmother...

Frans Bromet goes in search of his family history and discovers that Hermanus Bromet was a well-known slave trader in Suriname. Should he feel guilty...

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

The film consists of video tapes made by the filmmaker’s father documenting daily scenes of family life, family celebrations, and holidays over...

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...

Revolves around a dining table and its purpose within the house.

A cellar. A forgotten amphora. The ashes of a woman. Her granddaughter, daughter-in-law and son characterise her, entwining their memories and...

Pauline Horovitz has been filming her father since 2009. In this new chapter with hints of a bittersweet documentary comedy, the hero, a former...

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...

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

Marina, a trans woman and singer in São Paulo's nightlife, reunites with her father, who has Alzheimer's, after years of estrangement. In an...

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...

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...

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...

A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of the filmmaker's Volga-German Great-Great-Grandmother, Mary Frank Lind, in which she...