Family History Movies

When a new father suddenly loses his own dad, an opportunity to travel back in time for an evening gives him a chance to end things on a better note.

Tasmania, 1954: Slovenian migrant Melita abandons her husband and young daughter, Sonja. Sonja's distraught father perseveres with his new life in a...

When Werner Herzog was still a child, his father was beaten to death before his eyes. His mother was overwhelmed with his upbringing and thereupon...

Brenda’s first memories were of growing up in a loving white foster family, before she was suddenly taken away and returned to her Aboriginal...

A teenager, disinterested in her Louisiana Creole heritage, finds herself having to entertain a visitor who only speaks what sounds like French....

By approaching the process of sexual reassignment, the work mixes data and experiences, focusing on family relationships and the nuances of the...

Rouzbeh arrives in Prague, far from his troubled family life in Tehran, to research his father’s past. Visiting the flat where his father, a...

Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society 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.

Two elderly sisters share the delicate art of making traditional Hungarian strudel and reveal a deeply personal family story about their mother, who...

A young woman (Dashe) discovers a cache of used books that she believes holds clues to the solution of decades-old crimes. When the authorities...

Unable to face the mother who left her at a young age, BRYNJA (40) takes shelter in a small guesthouse in a village outside Reykjavik. There she...

Memories are created and preserved when a boy paints a porcelain cup, a grandfather tells his grandchildren about two birds, and a grandmother...

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...

Danny Berish’s grandparents met at a nudist camp in 1949. In an effort to understand his grandparents’ radical lifestyle, he meets and...

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line...

A young sailor arrives in Busan Harbour; an outrageous-looking, woolly bear of a man appears in downtown Busan with a shotgun over one shoulder, a...

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