Autobiographical Movies

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

Filmmaker Matthew Thomas Ross provides an original look into his personal journey of a rare cancer diagnosis in his 30s. Through expansive childhood...

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

Has Matthew been wasting his life? He’s 29 years old with 4 memberships at adult video stores, 55 tapes of compiled porn, and absolutely...

Daniel Cockburn’s exuberantly cerebral, filmically deconstructionist work defies easy categorization, and this program of new work is no...

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.

Apartments and photos. Initially, a game. There, meet David Bowie. I dive into boxes, I open albums. Bowie, cats, Tours, postcards, a stamp album,...

Narrator and director Michael Schaap's confessional style and general goofiness bring levity to an awkward topic: "erectile dysfunction" and the...

A short film recounting the travels of a lonely astronaut confronted by the unknown. Unfolding as a mystery, it becomes a carefully subtle,...

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...

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...

Autobiographical documentary by Juan De La Mar. Join me to plant myself back to live.

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

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...

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

An autobiographical, partly animated, documentary about a filmmaker striving for a better future as a survivor of childhood sexual assault.

"Where’s the Respect?" is a track written, composed, and produced by Ali Boubacar Bonkano. Delivered as a raw, personal narrative, the track...

I have decided to embark on this journey to meet the ghosts of my past. After many years, the time has come to bring out everything I have inside and...