A family filmed from within. The director captures his mother's fight against cancer, as his sister announces she is pr…
A traveling cameraman and father of three observes what happens when human skills no longer command a "market value".
Have you ever thought about how you got here? We really are what our parents did for us. In this film, a son and father…
After becoming pregnant, a filmmaker confronts a ghost from the past: having another abortion. Suddenly, her mother and…
A vehement Cypriot woman begins a personal investigation on the trail of her great-aunt, who was forced to marry a stra…
8-year-old Bowen is preparing for his third open heart surgery. He and his family hope that this time the surgery can g…
For lovers of painting and biographies. This documentary reviews the lives and work of the prolific and acclaimed paint…
Canada-based Iranian director Farhad Pakdel films four Iranian families in this country as they reminisce about the spa…
This animated short film made by six filmmakers evokes one of those inevitable and essential conversations, the one bet…
Egyptian director Amr Bayoumi revisits his country's tumultuous contemporary past through his own family traces as the …
When he suspects that his mother is involved in a mysterious online love affair, filmmaker Vincent Sparreboom acts like…
Filmmaker Zeinah AlQahwaji condenses several years of filmed visits to her parents' home in Syria, locked in this house…
A house. A filmmaker. One man and one woman. In this Criterion Collection classic, filmmaker Allan King documents the c…
A filmmaker travels to a familiar city with her film camera on a mission to immortalize her parents' home in an image, …
To discover the truth behind the mysterious objects her uncle brought back from the Far East during her childhood, film…
Father and son travel a long distance from the Czech Republic to a Russian city. So close together but so far away at t…
After a long time of being separated from her brother, interned in a select Catholic order in an isolated monastery, fi…
To dig into her family tree, a Kenyan woman in exile embarks on a journey to three countries to construct the figure of…
Filmed over several years, this iconic documentary directed by Helena Třeštíková follows a married couple from their ho…
A captivating portrait of a remote rural village in Cuba takes place before our eyes. At the same time, a touching dial…
In the interior of a Japanese apartment where an art gallery operates, a daughter and her mother with dementia live day…
The relationship between grandson and grandmother is always powerful, enigmatic. Filmmaker Stéphane Riethauser undertak…
Filmmaker Tana Gilbert films the relationship between her octogenarian grandmother and her uncle Jhonny, a mentally uns…
A family gravitates between two countries. Indira in Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Mehdina in France, are two sisters with di…
After a long absence, a daughter returns to her parents' home with a movie camera. Beset the same financial problems th…
When great-grandmother Inés died, it meant nothing to little Luisa. Several decades later, some old manuscripts bring t…
Grandma lives alone and hasn't left the bed for days. The only constant observer of her everyday life is the camera.
Living as a lighthouse keeper on a remote Atlantic island, a man sets out for the Congo as a member of the UN Peacekeep…
Focusing on the experiences of three children with autism, this documentary is an intimate look at living as a family w…
The daughter of an Iranian dissident killed by the Islamic Revolution delves into her family's memories, mixing the pol…
In only six minutes, a little boy portrays his domestic universe. A younger brother, his grandparents, his most technol…
A humble family lives inside an unfinished residential building in Bogotá. On the outside, there seems to be no life, b…
Composed of black and white still pictures, in this short film Hanne tells us how life goes on after losing her sister …
At 92, having lived so long is a joy for Shirley Affleck, and even more pleasurable is being able to recount her journe…
Through her father's daily life in Mansourah, Algeria, filmmaker Dorothée-Myriam Kellou unearths the wound of a painful…
Valentina, the filmmaker of this short film, was raised by her grandparents and not by her parents. Many years later, s…
Blending fiction and documentary, this beautifully photographed film documents the tense wait of a religious woman in a…
In a remote village in rural Portugal, a filmmaker arrives to delve into his family's past.
In the privacy of their homes, seven parents of LGBTI individuals talk about their life-changing experiences of leading…
Stine is 37 years old and the single mother of three girls. Her daughter Cecilie, age 11, has cancer and has had it sin…
While a group of Russian army soldiers train intensively, a family mourns the death of their son, Dima. Two seemingly u…
Played by the inhabitants of a humble fishing community in Venezuela, this hybrid short film follows two brothers tryin…
A young filmmaker films her reunion with her father, an addicted man who has just been released from prison. Through ci…
Mixing animations, old home videos and film footage of the present, filmmaker Steffan Strandberg recalls the most impor…
A father has only a year to live and leave a legacy to his newborn son. Mixing animation with home video footage, this …
A nine-year-old girl and her parents, the three of them locked up at home. The girl must do her school homework, but th…
Filmmaker Juan Fernandez films the flowers, animals and objects that inhabit a house. But he is really portraying the m…
Set against the seascapes of the little-known Russian Far East, this film documents Fatei's daily life as he and his fa…
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