Family History Movies

The suffocating love between between a father and a son who, as modern outlaws, struggle to survive in the depleted and neglected southern Dutch...

A woman and her family reflect on her life and what it means to be a successful mother.

African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slave era. The result is this documentary, which...

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...

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...

Pauline Horovitz has been filming her father since 2009. In this new chapter with hints of a bittersweet documentary comedy, the hero, a former...

Filmmaker and educator Janine Windolph ventures from Saskatchewan to Quebec with her two teens and younger sister, tracing their familial origins to...

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...

War journalist Paul Prior returns to his New Zealand hometown after his father’s death, rekindling strained relationships with his brother and...

A border town in the south of Switzerland is the backdrop for the most important summer in 15-year old Samuel’s young life. He is introverted,...

The pianist Miguel Ángel Lozano embarks on a personal and artistic journey with the purpose of reconstructing the life of his grandmother,...

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

The short follows the lives of a family consisting of Bert, Rae, and their daughter Rachel. The viewer serves as an observer of the family's...

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