Family History Movies
- 2011
Summer Games
Summer Games6.22011HD
The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual...
- 2016
Strudel Sisters
Strudel Sisters02016HD
Two elderly sisters share the delicate art of making traditional Hungarian strudel and reveal a deeply personal family story about their mother, who...
- 2013
More Than a Face in the Crowd
More Than a Face in the Crowd02013HD
A filmmaker explores the life of her 100-year-old great-aunt, Jane Chung, an actress who made a career for herself at a time when Asian Americans...
- 2024
Our Maternal Home
Our Maternal Home82024HD
Filmmaker and educator Janine Windolph ventures from Saskatchewan to Quebec with her two teens and younger sister, tracing their familial origins to...
- 1970
Cómo vivir toda una vida con apenas un te quiero
Cómo vivir toda una vida con apenas un te quiero101970HD
- 2025
Elle va crier
Elle va crier02025HD
Audrey, a woman in her mid-fifties, has never been able to make peace with her tumultuous family history. A clumsy mother, an emotionally distant...
- 2024
Drinking a Monster in the parking lot of the clinic where I was born that is now a funeral home
Drinking a Monster in the parking lot of the clinic where I was born that is now a funeral home02024HD
A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster energy drink.
- 2023
Mary Remembering
Mary Remembering102023HD
A short animated documentary featuring archival recordings of the filmmaker's Volga-German Great-Great-Grandmother, Mary Frank Lind, in which she...
- 2021
Together
Together02021HD
Two people have a conversation.
- 2011
Position Among the Stars
Position Among the Stars8.52011HD
Through the eyes of grandmother Rumidjah, a poor old Christian woman living in the slums of Jakarta, we see the economical changing society of...
- 2020
Papa s'en va
Papa s'en va02020HD
Pauline Horovitz has been filming her father since 2009. In this new chapter with hints of a bittersweet documentary comedy, the hero, a former...
- 2020
Mamanam
Mamanam72020HD
West Germany, Christmas Eve, 1971. 7-year-old Kimîa captures her family’s celebration through the lens of her Super 8 camera. But the...
- 2022
‘Merica
‘Merica02022HD
- 2020
Life Is Dream
Life Is Dream82020HD
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...
- 2021
Charlene White: Empire's Child
Charlene White: Empire's Child02021HD
Charlene White embarks on a deeply personal journey to uncover the roots of her connection to the British Empire in a bid to find out if we can ever...
- 2018
Caribou in the Archive
Caribou in the Archive02018HD
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...
- 2021
Nude to Me
Nude to Me102021HD
Danny Berish’s grandparents met at a nudist camp in 1949. In an effort to understand his grandparents’ radical lifestyle, he meets and...
- 2020
Kindergarten
Kindergarten02020HD
A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning...
- 2019
Man on the Bus
Man on the Bus02019HD
Can a secret change who you are? Mysterious events unfold and reveal how Martha, a Polish holocaust survivor, managed to lead a double life in...
- 1970
Floripes
Floripes101970HD
A story with almost 100 years told by the 95 years old woman Floripes.