Family History Movies

Her own family history from a female perspective, told as a fragmentary, personal stream of memories. Great-grandma, grandma and mother have to come...

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

A sock puppet explores a family history told from the perspective of a mother and father.

Stuck in a creative rut, filmmaker Gilda Pourjabar returns to Iran, her homeland, to talk with her brother Siamak, an illustrator based in Tehran....

A young man Nuno, tries to understand how his fate is tied to that of his deceased uncle Nuno, whom he never met.

A teenage girl and her older sister fight over their late mother's camera, and who has the right to remember her.

Home movie collection of the Bohulano Family of Stockton, CA. Footage dates between the 1950s-1970s.

Romani filmmaker and advocate Liza Mortimer unearths her family's musical legacy in the archives of The English Folk Dance and Song Society,...

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...

As Molly prepares for her late brother's funeral, Sam helps her through her grief and guides her to the very end.

Abroad at the time of her death, a grandson returns to revisit the house of his late grandmother, now occupied by another family. A reflection on the...

On the anniversary of their mother's death, brothers Enzo and Franco find a box with many old photographs. As one of the brothers is blind, the other...

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...

a short story about my dad.

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.

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