Jan's father is not his father at all. The directors knows this and takes this fact as the starting point for a very personal documentary film project about the search for his biological father(s).

The rugged Swiss mountain valley of Bregaglia has produced an entire dynasty of artists: the Giacome...

Frans Bromet goes in search of his family history and discovers that Hermanus Bromet was a well-know...

Two elderly sisters share the delicate art of making traditional Hungarian strudel and reveal a deep...

At the edge of the Yangtze River, not far from the Three Gorges Dam, young men and women take up emp...

A cellar. A forgotten amphora. The ashes of a woman. Her granddaughter, daughter-in-law and son char...

The director explores the birth origins of actress Merle Oberon, traveling to Tasmania and India in ...

A woman returns to the site of her birth, which is now a funeral home. She drinks a white monster en...

A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that ferven...
School lunch chef Wanda McAfee-Conart reflects in her job and how it connects her to the sensory env...

In an empty house, we see the memories of a home, from those who once lived and filled it with joy a...
Denese Joy Becker, a manicurist living in Iowa, discovers she is indeed Dominga Sic Ruiz, a survivor...

Epigenetics and psychogenealogy through a VERY personal experience.

Traces the new Cold War between Russia and the West from the ban on American citizens adopting Russi...

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the F...
African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slav...

After 48 years of emotional longing, a mother meets her son who she relinquished at birth. In the mo...

Charlene White embarks on a deeply personal journey to uncover the roots of her connection to the Br...