Movies: Family history

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 faced widespread racism in Hollywood. Jane has had parts in over fifty films and TV shows including Chin...

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Pauline Horovitz has been filming her father since 2009. In this new chapter with hints of a bittersweet documentary comedy, the hero, a former doctor “programmed” to work, takes advantage of his retirement to become an actor. Following the first ste...

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

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The first of these traces the words of Louis Pereira's grandmother, delving into his childhood and memories of the past....

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A cellar. A forgotten amphora. The ashes of a woman. Her granddaughter, daughter-in-law and son characterise her, entwining their memories and experiences. They reflect about filial love, gender and isolation through her overbearing nature....

Memory prevents rest and a woman about to die takes advantage of cinema to tell her story (inseparable from that of Franco’s Spain) and to say goodbye. A terrace as a border and a song that crosses time. At home, nothing is always—and everything is s...

A young filmmaker accompanies his grandfather– a veteran of the Vietnam War– to Fairbanks, to dedicate his unit flag to a new generation of helicopter pilots....

The author's grandparents were Aromanians, a Balkan minority of nomadic shepherds, without territory and written language, wandering between mountains and seas. Their story is told from the subjective point of view of the artist, who passionately re...

A childhood story is narrated while home movie footage is displayed. The narrator recounts her assimilation experience: moving to America, learning English, giving up your culture and a part of yourself....

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Eric Branom, a teen who lives alone with his dad. Has to join his dad's uncle on a sailing trip, whom he never met. Eric starts seeing nightmares, and starts to lose his mind when disturbing, weird secrets are puzzling up about his family... The Bran...

After being diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Lino Santos Gomes, the grandfather of director Barbara Marques, will move in with his family. Videos were made with cell phone lenses. From chaos to love, a grandpa’s day....

Filmmaker Evan Jordan, accompanied by his friend (it's complicated) Sophia Anderson, returns to his home state for the first time since the passing of his elderly grandparents and terminally ill uncle — where he revisits his bizarre past through arch...

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 through the episodes of non-vision that these three generations share, the memories of the past, the misu...

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