Family History Movies

The race to save the world's only dedicated Māori World War One Memorial from collapse reveals an unknown soldier's heroic story to the...

A school teacher never just teaches. A step back in time of the life of a school teacher in a small city in the North of France and her experience of...

In 2022, while living and working in Hong Kong, Hester started writing daily about her experiences. The previous year, inspired by the weekly online...

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

Artist and filmmaker Philippe Mora (Mad Dog Morgan; The Howling II; Swastika) is producing a graphic novel about his late father, Georges, widely...

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

A documentary filmmaker travels to Bolivia to learn more about his father and his family's history.

When Ines died, she left a very particular legacy, 10 books that read 'For my children'; it was the story of her life. Marked by a youth idyllic...

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...

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.

Stone Street documents the life and experiences of a Trinidadian diaspora family and their enduring connection to the long standing family home in...

At the end of the 1960s, Vanesa’s parents fled the Franco-regime’s deep poverty to pursue their dream in the Netherlands. Working their...

Historically, the queer community has not been portrayed in mainstream culture as being capable of protecting children and young people. Yet my uncle...

The first of these traces the words of Louis Pereira's grandmother, delving into his childhood and memories of the past.

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