Family History Movies

Shifting Paths explores one family's resilience during the 1933 boycott of Jewish businesses in Frankfurt, Germany. This film traces the loss of a...

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

Two brothers, ordered by their ill-fallen father, traverse through the cursed wilderness, establishing their past helps develop a newfound bond. All...

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

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

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

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

The filmmaker envisions what life would have been like if her parents never left their country of origin. The haunting imagery and disjointed...

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

Revolves around a dining table and its purpose within the house.

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

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.

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

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

An instructional film on wine drinking.