Family History Movies

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...

The director Andrés Kaiser combines hundreds of amateur films and photographs from the treasure trove of images belonging to his migrant...

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...

Eliza Dushku takes on her homeland of Albania.

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

A girl and her grandmother celebrate a birthday on a summer day in Maine.

A documentary special that provides a rare view into the real Charles behind the headlines… told in his own words.

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,...

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...

Flora Bear’s youngest granddaughter searches for truth and answers about her Indigenous grandmother’s life.

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

A 26-year-old man becomes gravely ill and died of an unknown disease. He was clearly hexed: it’s October 1980 and we are in Haïti....

When she realizes that her grandmother, the woman who raised her, is losing her sight, the director decides to explore the bond that unites them...

A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning...

A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.

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...

School lunch chef Wanda McAfee-Conart reflects in her job and how it connects her to the sensory environment and to her own family history.