Autobiography Movies

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

Based on the novel of the same name by Chinghiz Aitmatov. The action takes place during the days of World War II in one of the villages of...

The film is loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," whose story was made famous by the Alessandro...

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

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

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

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

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

In his first HBO comedy special, Gary Gulman offers candid reflections on his struggles with depression through stand-up and short documentary...

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...

Memories of the past intertwine with the present in the stylistically playful Arcturus. The warmth of moments captured on a family’s home video...

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...

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...

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...

James Lapine's tribute to a life in the theater based on Moss Hart's autobiography of the same name, starring Tony Shalhoub and Andrea Martin. The...

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