Family History Movies

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...

An Italian film crew travels through Moldova, amidst Soviet nostalgia, ghost states and suspended identities, discovering that the real journey lies...

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

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...

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

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

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

During a telephone conversation, Oma reminisces about her life with Opa: how they met, what they built, and what endures.

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

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

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...

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

Focused on the experiences of Manuel "Manolo" Díaz Caballero, who was a local police officer in Malaga for more than 30 years, his memories of...

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

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

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

A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.

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...