Autobiography Movies

Based on true events, "Dissociated Me" tells the story of a woman encouraged by a renowned film editor to turn her chaotic Beverly Hills past -...

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.

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

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...

Torrey Pines is a stop-motion animated feature film by director Clyde Petersen. Based on a true story, the film is a queer punk coming-of-age tale,...

The shooting diary of a film shot in France and in the United States. Using photos of Paris and of New York City, excerpts of his former films,...

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

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

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.

Holger Diekmann was a singer, bass player, and drummer in multiple local bands throughout his short life. Filmmaker Jonas Helmerichs sets out to...

A short experimental film that explores one filmmaker’s journey to preserve fleeting moments before they fade. Created as a heartfelt...

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,...

This is a sort of documentary made by Vilgot Sjoman about Vilgot Sjoman as a sort of cinematic autobiography aired on Swedish television originally...

Based on a true story, NO1 recalls the life of a human. Is it a special life? Is it the life of a hundred? No1 can say until they know the whole...

Start from Scratch.

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