Autobiographical Movies

Filmmaker Helena de Llanos, who lives in the chaotic house, full of memories and treasures, where her grandfather, Fernando Fernán...

Danny sets out to uncover the story of his estranged father. Piecing together mementos, stories from his dad’s old friends, and hard...

"Where’s the Respect?" is a track written, composed, and produced by Ali Boubacar Bonkano, featuring vocals by Bima Bama. Delivered as a raw,...

João Pedro Rodrigues answers the question from the title with an autobiographical short-film.

After losing her grandfather when she was less than a year old, a now very conflicted teen must learn how to navigate her grief even though she...

The story of Ernest Hemingway's 30-year love affair with the West Indies republic is recounted in HEMINGWAY IN CUBA. Cuba captured Ernest Hemingway's...

Charting Julia Bradbury's battle with breast cancer, following her as she comes to terms with her diagnosis and prepares for a potentially...

A clean story to tell. A coherent story.

A lone passenger is reflected in the windows of a train crawling through layers of textures towards Minsk. During his absence, the city has not...

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

Early nineties. On television the Gulf War breaks out, while on the Italian political scene the PCI disappears and the Lega Nord appears. Inter Milan...

Through a splendidly drawn and masterfully animated short, Ito Rina reasons on the troubled battle he has to overcome in her daily life, accepting...

A day in the life of director Boris Lehman: he wanders from cafe to bookshop, cinema to museum, writer to musician, and into the storeroom of the...

Filmmaker Alan Berliner chronicles his lifelong battle with insomnia in this intimate documentary. The cameras roll as he tries to quiet his overly...

Gavin built a giant volcano sculpture that's now in his dad's shed. Gavin seeks his dad's understanding but he's uninterested in modern art and...

A personal film on love, loss, and time. Through fragments of home, old footage, and found sounds, the filmmaker traces his mother’s quiet...

Hartmann proposes a 76-minute film in which each minute stands for a year of his life. This obsessive rule is invoked in the last 4...