Family History Movies

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

Romani filmmaker and advocate Liza Mortimer unearths her family's musical legacy in the archives of The English Folk Dance and Song Society,...

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...

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle...

Artist and filmmaker Philippe Mora (Mad Dog Morgan; The Howling II; Swastika) is producing a graphic novel about his late father, Georges, widely...

Brenda’s first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal...

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

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...

How much of ourselves have we left behind in words meant for others? Letters explores the secrets, confessions, and hidden truths sealed within...

Stone Street documents the life and experiences of a Trinidadian diaspora family and their enduring connection to the long standing family home in...

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...

If your family photographs could speak, what stories would they share? Interweaving interviews with family artefacts, 'My Lovely Grandma' is an...

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...

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

A filmmaker embarks on a personal journey to document her father’s old neighborhood through her own perspective. Accompanied by her...

Starting from the distance that separates him from asteroid 121019 Minodamato, the narrator embarks on an emotional journey in search of the many...

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