Autobiographical Movies

The personal story of a woman struggling with an inherited illness, as told by Signe Baumane, the Latvian director-animator living in New York City....

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

Little Pu spends a summer in Norrland with all his relatives. He and his brother get to hear the story about the watchmaker who hung himself, learns...

Aussie boys of Asian descent candidly discuss their status as a "minority within a minority".

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

Iron and Silk is a 1990 movie based on the eponymous book by American writer Mark Salzman. It details his journey to China after college to study...

A family’s story, typically crazy and exceptional at the same time. A film about home and exile, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters...

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

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...

Two generations dialogue through the images they filmed of their children, a reflection of the emotional bond that arises from their involvement with...

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...

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...

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

An Autobiography charts the influence of the filmmaker’s six-year experience as an African American woman in Taiwan after college graduation....

This is a book excerpt adaptation from Anna Akana's "So Much I Want To Tell You: Letters To My Little Sister"

This autobiographical film portrays a regression to life in the womb and represents three psychic states.

An auto-documentary about a disenfranchised Everyman and his struggle to re-integrate himself into society. He fails and turns to crime.

Documentary-essay short film about a inner/outter trip to the flowery desert in the north of Chile. A student film by Gabriel Lizama AKA Liz Taylor.

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