Family History Movies

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

Epigenetics and psychogenealogy ​through a VERY personal experience.

Amarr Coleman, a successful Chicago-based artist who has returned home to Kentucky after the passing of his beloved grandmother, Linda Coleman, finds...

Seeking to reconnect with her brother Daniel, Ama organizes a trip to some local pools. However, as the waters stir, so do their emotions, forcing...

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

The story of Christina Lau and her relationship with her parents as she recounts the happy and traumatic memories of her childhood and adolescence....

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

A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.

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

During a telephone conversation, Oma reminisces about her life with Opa: how they met, what they built, and what endures.

A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of the filmmaker's Volga-German Great-Great-Grandmother, Mary Frank Lind, in which she...

Gregorio, Dolores and Zoila are three elders excited about the arrival of a new member to the family; Esteban, their great-grandson. Through the...

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

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...

A portrait of Chicagoland ICU nurse Jeanette Alvarez-Basem captured through the perspective of her son Ben Basem. Between her night shifts and...

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

A young man Nuno, tries to understand how his fate is tied to that of his deceased uncle Nuno, whom he never met.

In Caribou in the Archive, rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB archival film footage of northern...