Autobiography Movies

In this "beautifully intimate and utterly unique piece of cinema", Toby Amies crosses the line between filmmaker and carer, trying to cope with the st...

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,...

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

At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized as a sincere conscientious objector t...

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

Second entry in Russian director Mark Donskoy's "Maxim Gorki" trilogy. Picking up where 1938's My Childhood left off, the story covers the years in Go...

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 Saint-C...

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

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

Unable to reconcile the realities of film-making with the warped fantasy created in his head, an obsessed fan suffers through a psychotic episode. A...

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

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 yo...

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

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

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 wh...

"My 60-year-long love affair with books and authors, their stories, and the life lessons they have gifted me. Filmed during the 2024 Oscars for Joel H...

Escaping is not as easy as you'd think.

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...