Family History Movies

Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of Indones...

A young man is determined to find out what happened to his grandfather who was arrested and then disappeared in WW2, why did the new communist governm...

Maya is Ayaibex's daughter, an addict in recovery that feels a blame for damages that caused her daughter, Maya decides to remember her mother's child...

The author's grandparents were Aromanians, a Balkan minority of nomadic shepherds, without territory and written language, wandering between mountains...

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

Alex, a wealthy and handsome man living a meaningless life, meets Tika, a beautiful and refined woman from a different background. He falls in love wi...

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

Filmmaker Evan Jordan, accompanied by his friend (it's complicated) Sophia Anderson, returns to his home state for the first time since the passing of...

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

The celebration of a city is held every year and nostalgia is the main guest. Around the city there is nothing but ruins and in the distance, four men...

The first of these traces the words of Louis Pereira's grandmother, delving into his childhood and memories of the past.

My mother has died. Her name was Maria. Her children, we, Raúl and Santiago, discover among the objects left by our mother hundreds of photographs fro...

Boris was a Ukrainian-Canadian mountaineer whose love for mountains was deeply spiritual. Now, his family must face their first expedition without him...

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern M...

By approaching the process of sexual reassignment, the work mixes data and experiences, focusing on family relationships and the nuances of the femini...

A journey through a century of Ambrosoli family history.