Family History Movies

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

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 project...

A retired Canadian professional wrestler from a very famous family recounts an amazing life in the ring and discovers an unexpected new family connect...

Lia prepares for the future. Whatever it may be.

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 face...

Roberto tries to interview his grandmother to find the story behind a family secret. There are two relatives whose faces are crossed out in all the pi...

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

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.

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...

The story of Christina Lau and her relationship with her parents as she recounts the happy and traumatic memories of her childhood and adolescence. Sh...

Memory prevents rest and a woman about to die takes advantage of cinema to tell her story (inseparable from that of Franco’s Spain) and to say goodbye...

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...

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

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...

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