Family History Movies

Filmmaker Peter Kunhardt examines how a one-of-a-kind collection of Abraham Lincoln photos and memorabilia have profoundly shaped the lives and...

Freddy, a 48-year-old bachelor with no children, who continues to live as if he were a teenager, meets Aylín, a 30-year-old girl who arrives...

THE LIMITS OF MY WORLD follows a nonverbal young man’s transition from the school system into adulthood. Brian has autism and faces the daily...

While searching for her grandmother, the director comes across the story of three brothers who are torn between the fronts of political ideologies in...

How much of ourselves have we left behind in words meant for others? Letters explores the secrets, confessions, and hidden truths sealed within...

Pauline, a plucky Super Ager from Erie, Pennsylvania lives her 102nd and 103rd years on camera, revealing the power that family, faith, purpose, a...

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...

Growing up in the largest affordable housing cooperative in Brooklyn, Cassandra’s world was artfully framed by her mother’s Super-8...

Marina, a trans woman and singer in São Paulo's nightlife, reunites with her father, who has Alzheimer's, after years of estrangement. In an...

Maya is Ayaibex's daughter, an addict in recovery that feels a blame for damages that caused her daughter, Maya decides to remember her mother's...

An Italian film crew travels through Moldova, amidst Soviet nostalgia, ghost states and suspended identities, discovering that the real journey lies...

A filmmaker confined to a psychiatric institution tries to find healing by bringing together all the members of his family for a collective...

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

Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. A clumsy mother, an emotionally distant...

Focused on the experiences of Manuel "Manolo" Díaz Caballero, who was a local police officer in Malaga for more than 30 years, his memories of...

By recounting their experiences with family, friends, lovers and country, a group of strangers examine what it means to be loved as Nigerians and as...

Daniel is the lead actor in a mafia film. He's about to shoot the pivotal scene: his father's death. His emotional preparation will plunge him into...