Family Portrait Movies

Set against the backdrop of Iran's strict and oppressive legal system, this anthology film tells the stories of four men who each face a moral crisis...

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that...

A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking...

Some Things Are Hard To Talk About is a personal documentary about the secrets of abortions in my family over three generations. After I had an...

In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small...

A filmmaker revisits her evangelical roots to find connection with her estranged father.

The personal stories lived by the Uncle, the Father and the Son, respectively, form a tragic experience that is drawn along a line in time. This line...

GRUFF is a handmade, paper short film that tells the story of a daughter, mother, and grandfather and how love is conveyed in different ways.

Jojo, a young art student, discovers the microcosm of an art academy with all of its opportunities and contradictions.

In the remote village of El Echo that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish...

As an orphan, for Jana, motherhood has always been priceless. When years later, she is raising a kid, single and homeless, Jana becomes a surrogate...

After starting a family of his very own in the United States, a gay filmmaker documents his loving, traditional Chinese family's process of...

An adopted Irish American artist confronts her past when both sets of parents come together over a weekend for her to paint a family portrait.

A portrait of the Director’s maternal grandmother, Eliane, a French woman who lived her entire life in Tunisia. The film shows her last moments...

Thanks to DNA, this documentary establishes the identity of Marilyn's biological father, thus revealing her new paternal family, 60 years after the...

15 years after his documentary film “Familie Villano kehrt nicht zurück”, Hans Andreas Guttner observes the second and third...

This rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family uncovers the story behind the family's phenomenal economic success. The...

Trevor, an Englishman living in Spain, is visited by his daughter who brings information that will change Trevor's life forever.

For over a year, from Paris to Los Angeles, David Hallyday agreed to open the doors to his private life and his clan. The artist opens up like never...