Autobiography Movies

Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Gorki's life when the future writer was on his own, looking for a...

In a remote Kyrgyz village, Dzhamilya follows her parents' orders when she marries a man without loving him. Then World War II breaks out and her new...

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

The warmth of moments captured on a family’s home video merge with the mystical discovery of bear bones and archival footage resurrecting a...

Kahlil Gibran remembers his days as a young poet and artist in Lebanon, and of the young woman (Salma) who ignited his passions.

The film tells the life story of its director, Jan Nemec, one of the most known and important filmmakers of Czech New Wave.

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.

An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.

unravels the hidden struggles between mothers and daughters across generations.

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...

Dalibor K. is an industrial painter, amateur horror maker, the composer of angry songs, painter and a radical neo-Nazi. He is approaching 40, but he...

A candid monologue by Anastasia Reshetova in short film format. Memories of a difficult childhood. The story of an ordinary girl from a residential...

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...

Filmmaker Cam Archer examines and explores his ordinary, suburban neighborhood in search of hidden truths, new narratives and a better understanding...

My childhood memories carry two important symbols, a large magnet that I pulled around behind me and a dead friend.

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

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

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...

“Memories of mother and daughter intertwine within the unique atmosphere of an imported cosmetics store in Macapá. A sensitive journey...