Family History Movies

The director Andrés Kaiser combines hundreds of amateur films and photographs from the treasure trove of images belonging to his migrant...

Tribute to director, screenwriter and actress Sarah Polley. A whimsical, playful film tells the story of the kinds of stories Polley tells, using...

Memories are created and preserved when a boy paints a porcelain cup, a grandfather tells his grandchildren about two birds, and a grandmother...

Danny Berish’s grandparents met at a nudist camp in 1949. In an effort to understand his grandparents’ radical lifestyle, he meets and...

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...

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

Zhou Lan-Ping, who wrote the renowned Mandarin pop song ‘Green Island Serenade’ and the score of the acclaimed Chinese musical film The...

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...

Epigenetics and psychogenealogy ​through a VERY personal experience.

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

The life of a female weaver is thrown onto the socio-political canvas of pre-war and post-war communist Poland through the use of expressive...

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

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

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

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