Family History Movies

A 26-year-old man becomes gravely ill and died of an unknown disease. He was clearly hexed: it’s October 1980 and we are in Haïti....

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...

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

School lunch chef Wanda McAfee-Conart reflects in her job and how it connects her to the sensory environment and to her own family history.

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

One man's discoveries concerning the small town his mother grew up in reveals disturbing facts.

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

Before Elijah sells his van "Theresa" for a home with his partner, friendship and memory are left vulnerable in the outdoors on a final surf trip to...

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

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

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...

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...

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