Family History Movies

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

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

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

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

A 26-year-old man becomes gravely ill and died of an unknown disease. He was clearly hexed: it’s October 1980 and we are in Haïti....

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...

A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning...

Lost in the Bewilderness is a feature-length documentary about the filmmaker’s cousin Lucas, kidnapped at age five from his native Greece, and...

A documentary filmmaker travels to Bolivia to learn more about his father and his family's history.

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...

A filmmaker explores the life of her 100-year-old great-aunt, Jane Chung, an actress who made a career for herself at a time when Asian Americans...