Family History Movies

In an empty house, we see the memories of a home, from those who once lived and filled it with joy and love.

Pauline Horovitz has been filming her father since 2009. In this new chapter with hints of a bittersweet documentary comedy, the hero, a former doctor...

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...

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

To open a photographs box is to travel through past and present, thinking about the future.

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

A cellar. A forgotten amphora. The ashes of a woman. Her granddaughter, daughter-in-law and son characterise her, entwining their memories and experie...

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...

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

Charlene White embarks on a deeply personal journey to uncover the roots of her connection to the British Empire in a bid to find out if we can ever t...

When she realizes that her grandmother, the woman who raised her, is losing her sight, the director decides to explore the bond that unites them throu...

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

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

In 1936, the Kiel dentist Dr. Rudolf Schultz bought a film camera to capture the development of his son Dieter. Over the years, many film rolls were e...