Family History Movies

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

An instructional film on wine drinking.

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

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

A short film about love, heritage and discovering a place where the heart feels at home.

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

A school teacher never just teaches. A step back in time of the life of a school teacher in a small city in the North of France and her experience of...

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

Stuck in a creative rut, filmmaker Gilda Pourjabar returns to Iran, her homeland, to talk with her brother Siamak, an illustrator based in Tehran....

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

The filmmaker envisions what life would have been like if her parents never left their country of origin. The haunting imagery and disjointed...

After 21 years I return to my city of birth in order to find out what would have occured to my family if we hadn't fled the war.

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

a short story about my dad.