Autobiography Movies

Laci is almost ready for his great escape - standing in his way are his watchful parents, a depressed grandmother, and a cat who still has a lot to...

They say that when they give you a name, they also assign you a destiny. The director of this documentary inherited hers from an aunt who died very...

Just after Isidore moves to France to study filmmaking, his best friend dies back in the US. Through documentary, performance, and animation, a...

The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films,...

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,...

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

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.

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

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...

A semi-autobiographical short about a young man musing about the nostalgic joy of being a careless child.

This film is an in-camera portrait of my niece, Mia Larose (who was six months old at the time) captured during a winter family reunion in Lac...

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

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

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

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The lives of millions of Christians around the world have been changed through the ministry of Charles Haddon Spurgeon. But how much do those of us...

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