Autobiography Movies

Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially,...

Searching for the root of generational trauma, the director takes a camera into his estranged grandfather’s funeral.

12 minuted video on youtube about last moments of the celebrated actress Soad Hosny.

A flock of memories activated by various musical exercises, to strike the past to the heart, to build something utopian: the future, a sonic...

unravels the hidden struggles between mothers and daughters across generations.

A short experimental film that explores one filmmaker’s journey to preserve fleeting moments before they fade. Created as a heartfelt...

Holger Diekmann was a singer, bass player, and drummer in multiple local bands throughout his short life. Filmmaker Jonas Helmerichs sets out to...

Constructed from personal and public collections, this video is a moving back and forth in memory.

Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale,...

This is a sort of documentary made by Vilgot Sjoman about Vilgot Sjoman as a sort of cinematic autobiography aired on Swedish television originally...

We follow the filmmaker's struggle to reconstruct a period of her life when she lost her memory.

A compilation of images co-creator Frank Mouris had collected from magazines interwoven with two narrations, one giving a mostly linear autobiography...

Lucie was born with a protruding ear that she got from her mother. In this documentary she tries to find answers in her fathers' features.

After a spell cast by Grandma Faraway, the oldest son of a small family encounters the ghost of his late Grandma Maria still living in her old house,...

Forbidden to Wander chronicles the experiences of a 25-year-old Arab American woman traveling on her own in the occupied territories of the West Bank...

The documentary is a portrait of an artist and a portrait of a deadly disease. Lene Marie Fossen was a gifted photographer who suffered from severe...

What kind of power is accessible through the discovery of a voice? Morgan Quaintance interlinks two anti-racist and anti-authoritarian liberation...

An invitation to enter the soul of an artist - director Erick Ifergan - through a highly personal retelling of the Orpheus tale suffused with...