Family History Movies

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

Epigenetics and psychogenealogy ​through a VERY personal experience.

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating light in the anniversary year 2008. The film is a...

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

Maya is Ayaibex's daughter, an addict in recovery that feels a blame for damages that caused her daughter, Maya decides to remember her mother's...

After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Lino Santos Gomes, the grandfather of director Barbara Marques, will move in with his family. Videos were...

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...

A retired Canadian professional wrestler from a very famous family recounts an amazing life in the ring and discovers an unexpected new family...

Harlem Fragments is an Afro-futurist scrapbook storytelling of a Harlem Black family's beautiful destruction during the 2008 recession. A natural...

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

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

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...

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

Two people have a conversation.

While searching for her grandmother, the director comes across the story of three brothers who are torn between the fronts of political ideologies in...