Family History Movies

Amarr Coleman, a successful Chicago-based artist who has returned home to Kentucky after the passing of his beloved grandmother, Linda Coleman, finds...

Part historical narrative, part experimental documentary, this film brings to life the year-long correspondence between the filmmaker's grandparents....

Othello, a melancholic family man, seeks out a seraphic myth known as The Guide for enlightenment and is unknowingly taken on an esoteric tour of...

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...

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...

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 young filmmaker accompanies his grandfather– a veteran of the Vietnam War– to Fairbanks, to dedicate his unit flag to a new generation...

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...

Flora Bear’s youngest granddaughter searches for truth and answers about her Indigenous grandmother’s life.

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

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

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

On the military road construction site, on the pastures of Lessinia, writer Carlo Stuparic wrote to his brother Giani. The film celebrates his...